Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Kindle has a big problem, so I'm leaving it behind." video.

I've noticed that happening more and more often as I get older and new editions of things come out. Some of it might be just my imagination, but some of it clearly isn't. I have a copy of the original theatrical cut of Star Wars and I'm very much aware of who was shooting whom in that cantina. My copy of For Your Eyes Only, does differ from the broadcast version from the '80s and '90s in that they took time away from that creepy bedroom scene and gave it to the hockey scene. In that case, it's arguably the way it always should have been as too much time was spent establishing Bibi as a predator that even Bond was uncomfortable with and not enough time was spend setting up the fight in the hockey rink. But, this stuff does have a tendency to warp perceptions as which character shoots first in the Star Wars cantina does fundamentally change how Han is viewed by the audiences. Whereas replacing the cardboard cutouts in the medal ceremony at the end doesn't fundamentally change anything other than make the shot look a bit more realistic. And, the problem is probably going to just get worse as it's easier and easier to have a computer remove and add things to scenes in ways that are very hard to detect if you don't know to look. It's one of the big reasons why I've been going back to DVDs as that gives me a guaranteed copy that will be the same forever.
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@RealtyWebDesigners I personally use software to crack the DRM so that I can have a backup copy of all my books. It's questionable whether DRM is really even permitted to prevent people from backing up their media. I also do it because it's annoying to not have all my books in one place. Most ebook sellers use compatible DRM, but the when I was figuring this stuff out you could move other sellers' books to Kindle, but not the other way around. So, unless I only purchased from Amazon, I'd be stuck using multiple devices or apps to do all my reading.
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@Hellmark Which really shouldn't be necessary as it should be considered fraud to have a button that very clearly says that and then to bury it in the ToS that the actual "purchase" is for a license that has a number of restrictions and can be revoked at any time without refunding the payments. The whole assumption that people have both the time and the expertise to read these contracts and agree to them is just naïve. Nobody is going to go to an attorney each time they updated the ToS, especially since once you've got hundreds of dollars in books you're not in a position to decline the changes they make as they won't let you continue under the old terms or cancel the account without giving up your books.
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@muchosa1 It's a losing battle for them. You can always just take photos of every single page and then run that through OCR software to give you a nice epub that can be read the same way that a normal one would. It might miss some of the links without extra work, but there's nothing that they can do to outright stop you from doing that as it presumably falls under these same rules that apply to home recording of TV and radio.
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@waterguyroks TBH, it kind of surprises me that they even bother with DRM these days because with few exceptions, the DRM doesn't appreciably delay the time that pirates get the software versus the paying customers and can create serious issues for paying customers.
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@TheTastefulThickness If it said rent, they'd have to charge significantly less than what the purchases that are being sold are going for. Which is sort of the problem.
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@steverolfeca Yes, although CA is a large enough state that often times companies will extend that to people in other areas so as to not have to worry about eventualities like a CA customer buying something while in a different state and having to wade through the legal issues that can arise when they go back home and are still using it. Also, Amazon has a presence in CA, so, they're subject to the laws there, but jurisdiction gets extremely complicated sometimes as WA is probably where they'd actually get sued.
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That was not missed by me or the folks I was discussing with this at the time that of all the books to do this with, 1984 was probably the most on the nose one possible.
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@NathanTeaches That's debatable. They were required to stop selling or distributing the books, they were not legally obligated to delete the copies that were already downloaded. Copy right just refers to creating copies, not to copies that already exist. The ones that already existed were not ones that Amazon had any obligation to delete as those would have disappeared on their own over time and in many cases it was a moot point as the copy had already been read and they were trapped on the Kindles as there was DRM to prevent them from being backed up independent of Amazon's copies on their servers.
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@mina86 Don't forget about mold and dust mites. And the fact that ebooks you can always print sections up to laminate. Which can be really convenient if you're interested in recipes.
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@colbyboucher6391 No, CDs are something you own. You get nearly all the ownership rights you'd normally enjoy when you buy a CD, the only rights you don't get come from making copies of that to sell. You're free to buy and sell your CDs on a secondary market as long as you like
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@aidan8583 Amazon is the most abusive in this space, so any time you can give money to one of the other companies, you're at least discouraging the worst abuses. And, Kindles have never been the best option, Nook used to be the best, but these days, they have major problems.
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@OGmolton1 They used to, but personally, I wound up just paying for a commercial software app that does work. If it ever stops working, I just will stop buying ebooks and switch back to paper books that I can convert to ebooks using ML software to make it a better experience.
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@chaddaifouche536 Personally, when I can, I tend to prefer to buy from Smashwords because it's DRM free.
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@Blitterbug Yep, I think that and the inability to use whatever reader I want to use to read are the biggest practical issues with DRM.
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@mina86 Yes, although the DRM isn't that much of a problem. Tools to extract the text exist if the tools to break the DRM cease to. A simple program to flip through the book and screen shot every single page isn't really that hard to write. And OCR already exists to easily go through hundreds of JPGs and convert that to a proper PDF with reflowable text in many cases.
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