Or in other words, they are working towards really having pirating taking off to the moon!
They can try as much as they want to stuff the genie back in the bottle, but technology is moving too fast.
Billy will have access to computers in school, and will learn how to circumvent drm at some point or will know someone who can do it for him.
And those of us in the middle class will not let this kind of BS stand!
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If, of course, the book exists in print. If the book is only released as an ebook, Billy just has to hope his local library has an ebook department, decides to buy it, and in some cases, if Billy's one of the first 26 people to check it out.
The lack of legit loaning/resale of ebooks is working toward re-establishing access to books as something for the upper classes, or at least removing access from the most impoverished classes of people.
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