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Originally Posted by endobenthic
Afternoon:
Since this is somewhat of a philisophical/morality question as well as a practical one ("STUDY SHOWS: Ditching DRM could reduce piracy, prices"), does DRM on library books make any more sense and is it therefor reasonable to expect for you the reader(s)?
Kind of a general question to all here.
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Of course.
If I buy a book, I can paint over the cover, write it in, I could even destroy it if I wanted to. It's mine - I bought it.
But if I do that to a library book, I will be charged for it. It's not my book - it's the library's, and I was just borrowing it.
Likewise, it is reasonable for there to be restrictions on a loaned/borrowed ebook because it's not yours.
However, I will say that the fact that DRM is used on books that are sold diminishes the effectiveness of DRM on library ebooks. They use the same DRM protocols that everyone knows how to break. It creates an unfair disadvantage to the libraries, who have no way to protect their books because customers already know how to break DRM due to being forced to do so on the books they've purchased.