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> More importantly, allow me to retire from having to write the tools that bypass your restrictions.

FFS PLEASE! I waste so much of my life fighting DRM and anti-RE measures. It's so infinitely frustrating to fight against stuff that shouldn't exist in the first place. Someone wasted their time to waste my time and in the end we end up exactly in the same spot.

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No, you don't wind up in the same spot. Most customers aren't like you, and don't waste their time fighting DRM and anti-RE measures: they just put up with the BS and pay through the nose for it. So the publishers profit handsomely, and the people they employ to write all that BS get paid too. The customers of all the ebooks get shafted, but they don't care about that, and they certainly don't care that they made your life harder so they could make more profit.

Yep. Unfortunately, the someone in question was paid in money, rather than respect, which puts food on the table for them.

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