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Originally Posted by rlauzon
First off, if you paid money for a DRM-contaminated eBook, you didn't "legitimately purchase" a book. You paid for a license - a very limited license - to read the eBook for a limited time on a limited number of devices (plus, I'm sure, more than a few more limitations).
They have the legal right to prevent you from accessing the eBook in the future - because that's what the license said they could do.
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This only applies to United States and in some limited extent to some other common law systems with similar license policy legislation.
For instance, in many countries within EU these one-sided usage policies have no legally binding stature.
But technically within US you're right, although the lying weasels surely didn't make this evident when they sold the ebooks.
They were selling "
ebooks", not a "
non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Device or as authorized by X as part of the Service and solely for your personal, non-commercial use." or some-such.
So they deserve all the flak they get, if you ask me
