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Originally Posted by intheendofdays
The issue is that whilst you might trust the person you cannot be sure where the file will end up, especially after a few years. For example: you pass it onto your mother-in-law who in turn passes it a friend, who shares it with someone at work ad nauseum and it eventually ends up on a file sharing site. File sharing sites are quite difficult to get files taken off of, mainly because they say that they are just connecting people and do not hold the files on their servers, so the copyright holder would likely come after you as your name is on the copyright page.
I too hate DRM but don't think that what you propose will solve the problem.
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It depends on what your mean by solving the problem. Yes your ebooks could end up on a file sharing site with your name on them and if that happened to me I would be upset and embarrassed and wouldn't loan books to that person again. Most people wouldn't want that to happen to them and that's the point. The copyright holder could attempt to come after me but they wouldn't get very far. It's not intended to be proof of a criminal offense. My ebook reader could have been lost or stolen and then all my ebooks could end up on a file sharing site. I recognize that it won't stop file sharing from happening. I just believe that it would be much more effective then what we have today and much less restrictive on fair use.