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Originally Posted by charlesatan
Hence the prevalent anti-DRM stance.
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I'm anti DRM (for "purchased" content, not so much for explicitly rented content, except in so much that it limits playability via open-source software, etc), but not for that reason. I doubt that people would be reselling ebooks if there were no DRM. 99% of the people wouldn't be careful to ensure that they properly transferred ownership.
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You lost me at "pool of available copies", which seems to applying a physical paradigm to eBooks. (It works in a library context, but not in a digital vendor framework where there is no "pool" to speak of.)
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I'm too lazy to go back and look, but I believe that I said "artificially limiting availability" -- at least the words were in my mind while I typed. I agree that it's completely manufactured, but I was merely proposing a system that could work within the frameworks that we've had imposed upon us.