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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
That's what Kobo and Google's online-only books is. I think it's how Zinio works. It's how some university's digital textbooks work -- you must be online, logged into our servers, to read these books. Admittedly, you could share your password, but that's your *entire* account's password; you can't give a person access to one book.
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Sure you can give them access. The account owner logs into the server using their secret password and is given legitimate access to the book. Then they save the book to a file and give it out to anyone they want, upload it to a torrent... etc. The trick is figuring out how to save it to a file instead of just display it on the screen. That's how DRM removal works though. It doesn't break the lock, it figures out ways of doing things with the content after the lock as already been opened.
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has to grant access to the legitimate owner (otherwise the book is useless), but once it does it cannot control what the legitimate owner does with the book.