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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
But that's exactly what I mean! The official Amazon mechanism starts with knowing the email address of the person you want to lend the book to. Once you've built a giant database of; "I Have/I Want, You Have/You want... and here's my email address", there's nothing stopping those people from forgetting about Amazon mechanisms completely and emailing each other books that have had the drm stripped from them -- like one big happy pirate mailing-list. With Lendle keeping track of who wants what.
Surely I'm not the only one that recognizes this?  |
The site doesn't know that. Having access to the lendability information, though, does allow enforcement to some extent-- that only lendable items are listed as available.
Of the 22 or so loans I've participated in on my lending club, only one loan was ever, um, suspicious (a file I know nothing about the DRM status of was emailed to me. I read it and then deleted it). The rest were legit loans. Most people there play by the rules. To me, it's only getting my money's worth to be able to lend the book to someone who wants to read it.
So many publishers have pulled out of the lending program it's sad. You see the same books listed over and over.