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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I can sympathise with producers who see the sheer scale of 'global sharing' as a threat. But I also want to defend my right to 'common-sense sharing' - and ultimately my interests as a consumer are more important (to me) than their interests as producers. I am a long way from being convinced that a world of Draconian DRM restrictions is less 'evil' than a world of laissez-faire pirating.
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Most DRM schemes allow for "common sense" levels of sharing. For example, if you and I both have a MobiPocket device, we can share books by encoding those books with each other's device ID. Sharing a book with a couple of friends is a completely different thing from posting a copy of a book on the internet where anybody in the world can download it. That's like burning 1000 copies of a CD and putting them on a stall on the street with a sign saying "free CDs".