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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
It may not be an issue for many buyers until they decide they want to move the book they have paid for to another device. If you are not an author are you an ebook buyer?
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eBook DRM usually isn't an issue as long as everything is setup correctly and working. An issue can arise when someone changes computers, changes readers or moves to a different country.
Let's say you live in the USA and you move to the UK. There's a good chance you'll lose access to your US purchased eBook from the stores you bought them from. If you have eBooks from B&N and switch to a Sony Reader, your eBooks can't go with you. If you change computers and you no longer have access to the eBooks you need to download again to update the DRM, then you could lose access.
So while DRM at first appears to work, in the long run, it really doesn't work.