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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Let me give you a term for copyrights as they apply to electronic books, its Digital Rights Management (DRM). DRM is code that is appplied to an electronic book that can stop a reader from doing undesirable things with the book that were sold to the reader. For example violating the copyright by selling the book or other things that are prohibited by copyrights. The troubble with DRM is that it is often carried a bit to an extreem by some authors who use it to limit the number of times that a reader can open the book or not allowing the reader to store the book on a backup hard drive. DRM is one of those things that are easily cirumvented so I personally do not worry about them much. My advice is to read up on what DRM is and how it relates to intelectual property rights.
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DRM has nothing to do with copyright or intellectual property laws.