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Old 03-19-2011, 10:04 AM   #220
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post

What should actually happen is that the e-book and reader devices should both have licenses that identify me as the owner. As long as those licenses match, the e-book should be displayed. Such a system would allow people to transfer e-books to different devices, negating one of the arguments against DRM. (See previous paragraph.)
Be careful what you wish for. That's the basic idea behind moving everything to online storage and charging people to stream it to one of their devices. In a lot of ways, when that happens it will be much worse than DRM.
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