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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
This doesn't apply to your apartment. And housing is, in most climates, a lot more vital than reading.
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If I own an apartment/house, I'm legally not allowed to rent/sell it?
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People here keep on blaming the publishers for living in the past. Well, part of the past is that books were sold and not leased.
I fail to see a moral reason why selling is better than leasing.
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The problem is that they're trying to both sell AND lease them at the same time. They want it to be considered a sale when it benefits them, but they also want to apply terms of a lease when those benefit them as well. They certainly advertise and charge you like it's a sale, but then after the fact try to consider it a lease when it comes to consumer rights.
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Now, I do see a practical problem in that the commonly used DRM schemes are easily broken. Even moderators do it! Necessity is truly the mother of invention, and, one day, I predict, someone will invent the better DRM needed to perfect the model of book leasing.
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It is fundamentally impossible to invent a DRM that can't be broken but at the same time allow legitimate customers access to the content.