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Originally Posted by HarryT
That, of course, isn't illegal with paper books and physical CDs. The problem with digital media is that one "lends" the friend a copy while retaining the original. Perhaps the answer to that would be a DRM mechanism which permits the copy of the book to be read on the unlicenced device, but auto-expires after 24h, or something like that?
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I've floated the idea
before of an e-book that was tied to a physical token. Something like the old notion of "book tapes' that appeared in '50s era SciFi. You could loan the token to your buddy, and wouldn't be able to read the book until/unless you got the token back. You could also sell/trade the token and no longer have access to its contents. Most of the traditional things you can do with a p-book would then be feasible with an e-book.