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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Digital Rights Management". The "locking" of an e-book to a specific device. Eg, when you buy a MobiPocket book you can enter the IDs of up to (generally) four MobiPocket devices on the web site you buy the book from. The eBook can then be read on those devices only. There is software available to remove most forms of DRM, which is legal to do in some countries, but not others.
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I thought as much, it's not time locked or anything though is it? It's just that this comment confused me:
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Originally Posted by RCR
I buy ebooks where I can. I'm not fussed by DRM. I only read a book once or twice, and I'm not going to share it. If I can no longer access it in a year or two, I don't really care.
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Why wouldn't you be able to access it after a year?
The only problem I can see then with DRM is that you can't sell the ebook on like you could with a pbook