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susan_cassidy · 02-07-2012, 06:38 PM

This was a special case, where the reseller could guarantee that the seller no longer had access to the file (not sure how they could be absolutely sure, though). Presumably somehow interacting via iTunes. DRMed ebooks would not have that ability unless Adobe and/or Amazon got involved, and I still don't see how they could prevent you from having a bunch of other copies of the file stashed somewhere.

02-07-2012, 06:38 PM	#3
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	This was a special case, where the reseller could guarantee that the seller no longer had access to the file (not sure how they could be absolutely sure, though). Presumably somehow interacting via iTunes. DRMed ebooks would not have that ability unless Adobe and/or Amazon got involved, and I still don't see how they could prevent you from having a bunch of other copies of the file stashed somewhere.