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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
I've always thought that if they allow ereaders to share books with other ereaders, but only via bluetooth, then that would pretty much solve everyones problem.
You can still share books with close friends and family that you know, but not with everyone on facebook.
Library lending could be done the same way as well, so you have to physically go into the library (like you always had to with pbooks).
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That sounds a bit like this app I saw last week:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.atono.swarm
It lets you make files available in a specific geographic location for a limited time. I have no idea if it will ever be useful for anything, but it's an interesting idea. The idea seems to be that you create a kind of file-sharing flash mob by letting people know, "Get to Public Square between noon and four and you can download x."
Ultimately though, your idea is still a highly artificial constraint and a diversion of resources toward making the product less useful. The problem with DRM isn't just that it's done poorly, but that it's a fundamentally bad idea. Colluding to hobble every product on the market is much more antisocial than file-sharing.