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No need to install or register ADE at all for Amazon. And for ACSM/ADE DRM downloads there is need to install or register ADE unless you are using it for a Library. |
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I found it easy but then I've been at it for some time and I've been keeping up with the changes, new features, new URLs, etc. |
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As I think more about this, it strikes me that I paid 40 bucks to buy an old Kindle off eBay so that I would have a reliable method to get my books out, after the Kindle4PC method stopped working for me (broke on Linux, Wine wasn't reliable...will spare the details). In light of that, it seems silly that this is what we encourage everyone to do, and yet we begrudge people who instead pay 50 bucks for a piece of software that obviates that step. |
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I don't begrudge anyone who pays $50 to make it easier on themselves. I just found it extremely ironic that someone who was proud of finally being able to "support authors," felt no compunction whatsoever about rewarding Epubor: a company who refuses to support/recognize the authors of the code they use without attribution. You can't pay someone for illicit DRM Removal software and pretend to be on the side of the angels.
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As someone who has contributed to that free codebase over the years, I don't care that they're using the code. I don't really even begrudge them charging for their derivative product. I do agree, however, that they are sleazy. But only because they don't give credit where credit is due. But then acting "dishonorably" isn't really a charge that carries a lot of weight these days.
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Jon, there is no need to steal the code since the code is open source and they are free to use it. What they do not do is to give credit to the creators of that code which, in my eyes, is a sleazy act.
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I agree that original authors should be credited for their work. But I can also see problems in trying to provide that credit for a product that has no license or usage requirements that I can find, is not copyrighted or patented as far as I can find, and was written by someone known only by their pseudonym/alias. I think it is a fairly reasonable conclusion to draw that those who wrote DeDRM knew from the start that they would never be widely known for what they did. I also think it is reasonable to believe that this was intentional. Giving credit to a phantom who wants to remain a phantom is (1) not an easy task, (2) probably an inappropriate thing to attempt in the first place, given the authors apparent desire to remain a phantom. There is a bit of a moral dilemma in all this - you want to give credit where credit is due, but you don't want to drag someone into something that they did their best not to be dragged into. So which side do you cheer for? The side that says "Give them credit, even if it may harm them" or the side that says "Facilitate their anonymity, by not publicly acknowledging what they did". I'm don't think the choice is as clear-cut as some might make it out to be.
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Actually, that is exactly what you said when you stated that his statement was not factually correct. Are you going to try to debate that making a factually incorrect statement is not an epitome of dishonesty? Trying to claim that his dishonesty was justified as a rhetorical technique does not make it any less dishonest.
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