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jiggy2011 on March 14, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Digital Comic Publisher Quits, Customers Lose All ...

True, but at least with the web we have archive.org and other archiving efforts.

With DRMd ebooks there are legal and technical measures in effect to try and prevent archiving.

InclinedPlane on March 14, 2013 [–]

Archive.org is great but it's at best a very, very incomplete solution to a huge problem.

jiggy2011 on March 14, 2013 | [–]

That's true, but physical archiving has it's challenges too.

I think there's an important difference between something being hard because it is and something being deliberately made more difficult that it needs to be.

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