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Originally Posted by Abisha
The content/image notification shown above is found on the HarperCollins store. Should this have stated "Rent/Borrow" this thread would have never begun. As for Digital Restrictions, the Digital Millenium Act, and EULA's, I find them to be the product of a corrupted political system, beguiled by the bribes of unethical industry. Paraphrasing Locke, an unjust law is simply not a law...
I understand your position rlauzon, though I respectfully disagree.
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Actually, I agree with you. Everything on the site, in big letters, says that you are "buying" the eBook. But when it comes down to the actual transaction, it says you aren't.
Cory Doctorow pointed this out in January.
IHMO, this is fraud. But until it's taken to the courts, there's nothing to be done.
But, regardless of whether or not you agree that this is right, the fact remains that you made an agreement with HarperCollins as a condition for downloading the eBook. By removing the DRM, you violated that agreement and it's you, legally speaking, that are in the wrong.