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Originally Posted by David Soulayrol
When you buy a book, you really buy an object. You can read it, multiple time, give it, sell it, you can throw it in the corner of your room and find it again months later. The main ban is that you cannot copy it. But this ban, the subject of the copyright, applies to the content, not the object.
With a A DRM protected file, you own really nothing else than the right to access to some content as long as some organization authorizes it, and only with the softwares they accept. And the copyright still applies to the content.
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With a physical book, if you forget how to read or burn your book, you also lose the book. With an eBook, as long as you maintain software capable of reading the file, you can read it (assuming again that you maintian the ability to read). As far as I am aware, the onus is on the user to maintain the ability (software) to access the file.