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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The owner of the ebook is the publisher.
They sell access *licenses* but retain ownership.
Read the terms of service/licensing agreements.
All you buy/own is the right to download/read the ebook as many times as you wish.
Most people find that is a good-enough proxy for actual ownership; others don't.
(And DRM doesn't factor into it--those are simply the terms of the transaction.)
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As soon as there are some auth. servers or tokens involved your "as many times as you wish" changes to "as long as we don't pull the plug" and since companies have no real interest in their customers than their money this happens frequently enough. Thanks. As it's been said: we've seen it with games.
In cases of unfair use the rightholders are free to go the way everyone else mistreated is free to do.
That's what courts are for. I see no reason for being chained by them "just in case"