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    Comment #26476798

    If you delete an account, the account must be gone. No login possible anymore. Otherwise it's not deletion.

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    Comment #26476710

    This company is a disaster. They are even too stupid to understand the concept of account deletion. "How to delete your Gumroad account: From your Advanced Settings page, scroll to…

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    Comment #19613886

    Are there any books of this kind for modern languages?

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    Comment #15202067

    It turns away more potential customers. The DRM has helped absolutely nothing to protect against copying. The book is already out there on the net as a now "DRM-free" PDF. It's a s…

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    Comment #14742359

    You can buy them on Ebooks.com http://about.ebooks.com/drm-free-oreilly-ebooks-available-eb...

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    Comment #14672835

    They don't protect anything. Probably 90% of your catalog is out there on the net and findable with a bit of googling. In the end it's just a bad business decision. You scare away …

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    Comment #14669238

    The watermarking is the sole reason I don't buy ebooks from PragProg.

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    Comment #14669227

    A digital watermark is automatically inserted customer information into a purchased product to restrict it's usage only to the buyer of that product. To me that's exactly like Digi…

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    Comment #13032041

    Watermarking puts the liability (maybe not legally) on the customer to protect the files from any third party access because there's always the risk that someone who gains access t…

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    Comment #13028996

    O'Reilly, NoStarch, Packt and Leanpub books are fine since they're completely clean. But books from Pragmatic Programmers, Manning, Apress, Addison Wesley, Pearson and Sams are wat…

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    Comment #12135418

    Dammit, the epub format is such a disgrace for books, especially for those containing code snippets. I've yet to encounter a book that doesn't suffer from being published as epub. …

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    Comment #11040782

    Test-Driven Development with Python by Harry Percival is kind of a Python/Django equivalent to the Ruby/Rails Tutorial. http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754