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Originally Posted by HarryT
I must respectfully disagree. DRM is essential to facilitate loaning. Without DRM - to prevent you from reading the book while your friend has it, and to ensure that it times out on your friend's reader - it's not loaning, but piracy, plain and simple. I always advocate removing DRM for personal use, but "personal use" is the key. If you're removing it to facilitate piracy, that's wrong.
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Even some public library loaning is being done without DRM so I wouldn't say it's essential. Useful for setting up lending systems that more publishers will actually participate in perhaps, but not essential.
More and more people I know have second (or third) readers now and are loaning friends the device along with the book(s).