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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think the intent of the "official" lending mechanisms is clear - to allow sharing of books among people living in the same household, and I maintain my view that this is a situation where DRM is beneficial; if you have multiple Kindles registered to the same Amazon account, it's very easy to share your reading material.
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Originally Posted by Fluribus
But with Kindles the DRM is keyed to the individual device. If my brother's Kindle is registered to my account, he can easily remove the DRM from every book I own and distribute them without my knowledge.
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I think Harry's choice of words is
wrong confusing. The thing I would call the "official lending mechanism" is that two-week lend-to-anyone feature that Amazon and other have. That's lending, in my mind, and it is indeed facilitated by DRM. It is not restricted to or intended for sharing only within a household.
Having multiple devices on one account is not lending, it's sharing. The devices on the account have (legitimate) access at the same time. That is not facilitated by DRM.
ApK