DDi and Lack of PDFs

[Protagonist]

I make a point of not buying CDs with DRM because it has caused me so many problems in the past. My car's stereo won't play most drm'd CDs, it is really difficult to convert some of the drm'd CDs to mp3 so I can listen to it on my mp3 player or via my car's usb slot et cetera. I actually have a music CD I bought during a vacation that tries to autostart and auto-install a software suite whenever you insert it into a computer...

 

[inklesspen]

Sure, it would be useful, just like it would be useful for me to photocopy entire books so as not to endanger my originals. It sure would have helped me- I lost a collectible book to a puppy I owned, a book that was a childhood favorite of mine. It would have been awesome to have a "use copy" on hand and the original in some safe place, but instead of that, I wound up replacing the book with a non-collectible edition of it.

The law says that, despite the utility of duplication, there is a greater utility in protecting the right of IP holders to sell complete copies- even multiple copies- to consumers, rather than let the consumers duplicate things at will.

And I'm OK with that.

Except that the law does explicitly allow making backup copies of programs, and guess what, a DVD with menus is a program. In addition, making a backup copy of your purchased product is widely recognized by lawyers to be fair use.

Don't be so quick to hand over your rights to companies. Yes, they have rights in their copyrighted products, but you also have rights as a customer.

I didn't intend to turn this into a discussion of all the horrible DRM out there, but your original post had the tone of "DRM never bothered me, therefore you must be doing something wrong" which is pretty fallacious.