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Old 04-06-2011, 04:33 AM   #145
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Originally Posted by avantman42 View Post
There is another point about DRM that I've not seen addressed anywhere on MR yet.

Copyright protection lasts for a limited time. DRM protection doesn't. DRM will still stop you making copies after the copyright expires, even though once the copyright expires, the book goes into the public domain and making copies is legal.
A good point. It doesn't affect many ebooks yet, of course, and none at all in the USA where nothing new has entered or will enter the public domain from 1st January 1999 to 31st December 2018.
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