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For people who choose Audible over something like Libro.fm that does not use DRM, why do you do it?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the vast majority of people don’t even realize or understand DRM in general or if they do they don’t fully grasp the fact that at any point in the future they could lose access to the rights protected things that they have purchased with real money if the company shuts down their servers, they lose access to the account, or any number of other things that would cause the files to be encrypted virtual paper weights.

That being said, I use Audible a few months out of the year to get a few credits for the Audible exclusive content, but I don’t view those purchases as content I now own, I view that stuff as “rented”. Though I’ve been looking into some open source projects that can decrypt my Audible stuff, just haven’t had time to do it yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Great insights. I was skeptical Libro.fm would have enough of a selection for me, but it seems to have most things I am looking for most of the time. This realization made me question why people choose Audible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think another big part of it is simply visibility. Audible is Amazon, and Amazon is (seems like) the “only” place to buy anything these days. I checked out Libro.fm a while back and at the time they had a rather small selection comparatively, but after browsing for a while yesterday I see they have grown quite a lot! I think I’ll give them a go next time in looking for something.