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Originally Posted by Shaggy
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.
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People can take photos of the page views and then either turn them into pdf's or run them through a character recognition program. But that takes a while to do and has imperfect results. Such piracy might not start until the book had been on the market for a while, and many potential downloaders would reject the book due to quality issues.
There perhaps is more to it than that. It may be impossible to make bulletproof DRM with existing hardware. Perhaps it will have to wait until continuous fast internet access is a given for virtually all hand-held devices. Or maybe digital watermarking is the cure. Stay tuned.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
If I own an apartment/house, I'm legally not allowed to rent/sell it?
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Of course you are. The publishers own books/periodicals, and are legally allowed to rent/sell, their choice. If you don't like the terms they are offering (and I hardly ever like them), you have free options of varying convenience, up to and including interlibrary loan*.
What happens when you rent the apartment and someone acts like you had sold it? You sue for your losses, and, in most countries, for your lawyer's bill as well.
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* This assumes you have interlibrary loan in your country. If I thought you didn't, I would approach this post differently.