Perhaps we should also look at ebooks in the same way we do other items like paper books or CD's - I would like to be able to share them with my family/best friend but no way am I "lending" my paper books (or anything else) to a perfect stranger or even a casual acquaintance. Do we need a "friends" system like Facebook but perhaps limited to, say, 4 people who have borrowing rights? This would be a much fairer DRM system and fits in with our everyday way of interacting with our closest social group.
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