You often compare digital books to software but there are many that feel software laws are out of wack. So saying the ebooks are more like software really doesn’t resolve any issues.

Also I’d like to point out the many hacker feel the old way of handling the market needs to change. Most customers and even hackers feel the creative end should get their due. It’s the publishing and retailing end of thing that most feel are out of alignment. Why should it be harder for me to legally buy a copy of a book then to get the hacked one? It shouldn’t.

I don’t download or share illegal copies but I do strip drm from every book I buy. Why? because I’m tired of being told how and where I can read my ebook. I’m tired of the retails changing the rules and suddenly I can’t read what I bought. Or I forgot some stupid password and can no longer open the book. Or the device I originally bought has been upgraded but I can’t transfer my books.

Fictionwise is a great source of ebook but look what has now happened to it? Industry is just too greedy and unstable to really play fair with consumer and as a result you will always have hacker. And I for one want the hacker to continue to exist because to be honest they are the only check value the system seems to have.