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Originally Posted by leebase
DRM does make it possible to tread digital files like physical objects from an economic perspective.
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And if publishers allowed them to be treated like physical objects--able to be handed off or resold after the first buyer was done with it--there'd be less complaints, and less stripping of DRM.
If I knew that I could buy a DRM'd ebook and then email an access code to a friend, and when she activates that I'd no longer have access to the book, I'd be willing to reconsider ebooks with DRM. But publishers are using it to push the idea of "one user per purchase," and I'm not willing to support that model.