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Originally Posted by stonetools
How would your method prevent that? You just attach the file and off it goes to your email distribution list. It would be just as simple as forwarding a blog post or newspaper article-something that's done a jillion times a day on the Internet.
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Just as simply done, but not even close to as casually or widely, which you said was the problem that made DRM necessary.
Throughout
your thread, you said passing a copy to family members or close friends wasn't the problem. You kept insisting that the need for DRM was to protect against "
Large Scale Casual Sharing," wherein the books were casually passed on, via Facebook etc, to dozens, who passed it on to dozens, and ultimately hundreds of people.
So we pointed out a method that would answer your problem without putting a burden on customers; just as was predicted, when you finally respond, it's only to dodge and weave to move the goalposts.
Not surprising, since so many publishers won't even permit a single two-week lending of an ebook in its lifetime.
Next thing we know, you'll be admitting that, beyond "large scale casual sharing," you don't even think I should be free to send my husband or sister one of my 6 allotted simultaneous copies. Or, well, I guess you just did:
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Originally Posted by stonetools
In fact, Piper, what you really want to do is to make copies of an ebook you buy and mail it to your family members . Well, that's a violation of the author's intellectual property rights and a federal offense. If the publishers removed DRM, they would just make it easy for you to do that and even (you could tell yourself) give you PERMISSION to violate the author's copyright. Well, you can't really fault the publishers for not making it THAT easy for you.
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You're still trying to use copyright to defend DRM that goes far beyond that and puts needless burden on customers.
I can legally send a copy to anyone as long as they use the same device and tell me their serial #. But I can't send it to my husband's or my own Sony without stripping it.
That's not because of copyright, but a restriction imposed by the DRM you defend.
Your position on this and people with different devices is so self-incriminating, I only want to thank you when you lay it out so openly to us. I just hope this puts an end to your accusing us of not offering any alternatives to DRM other than no protection at all.