<story><title>ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service</title><url>http://3lib.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>night-rider</author><text>&amp;gt; I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!&lt;p&gt;Without a DRM mechanism it can be easily shared on warez sites. They really don&amp;#x27;t want books easily disseminated DRM free on warez sites. Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how &amp;#x27;fast&amp;#x27; you are at reading. Welcome to 1984.</text></item><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>Purchased ebooks are like ebooks except you can only read them in Adobe&amp;#x27;s shitty app, you can&amp;#x27;t share them with your kids, and you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow.&lt;p&gt;I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lxgr</author><text>&amp;gt; Without a DRM mechanism it can be easily shared on warez sites.&lt;p&gt;DRM doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be very good at preventing this either, though. The only thing it&amp;#x27;s really good at is making it harder for legitimate users to access their legally purchased media.&lt;p&gt;There is an inherent asymmetry to it: It only takes one sophisticated bad actor to break DRM and make a cracked book widely available, yet legitimate users not willing to break the law are suffering the inconveniences of error-prone, user-hostile systems.&lt;p&gt;I can even somewhat empathize with the idea of DRM for subscriptions or loans (otherwise there is really no incentive for users to continue paying, and durable access is not a concern either), but for outright purchased media, it really rubs me the wrong way to know that I can lose access to my stuff at any time.&lt;p&gt;It worked like this for music (Spotify and Apple Music have DRM, but iTunes and Amazon MP3&amp;#x2F;AAC purchases haven&amp;#x27;t, for example), and it&amp;#x27;s even working for eBooks in some countries: German language ePubs have been DRM free for some years now (although watermarked).</text></comment>
<story><title>ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service</title><url>http://3lib.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>night-rider</author><text>&amp;gt; I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!&lt;p&gt;Without a DRM mechanism it can be easily shared on warez sites. They really don&amp;#x27;t want books easily disseminated DRM free on warez sites. Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how &amp;#x27;fast&amp;#x27; you are at reading. Welcome to 1984.</text></item><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>Purchased ebooks are like ebooks except you can only read them in Adobe&amp;#x27;s shitty app, you can&amp;#x27;t share them with your kids, and you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow.&lt;p&gt;I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sixtyfourbits</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gizmodo.com&amp;#x2F;amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-kindle-5317703&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gizmodo.com&amp;#x2F;amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>