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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
anyone who supports reselling must support DRM.
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Exactly. On a large scale, that is the only logical conclusion I can see, unless part of the plan is to destroy the market for people writing new books.
Sure, there's a rationale for being able to sell "used" ebooks, but it only works if there's a mechanism for ensuring that the seller doesn't retain a copy. Selling a copy while keeping a copy sure looks like a violation of copyright to me.
Some people will be honest, of course. I trust my readers enough to sell books without DRM. But part of that trust includes a social contract that they're not going to turn around and screw me by selling duplicates of my books to others.