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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because you have removed the time-limiting DRM from the books. You can keep them forever. Removing DRM from books that you've legitimately bought is one thing, and I don't think too many people would argue with you about it. Removing DRM from somebody else's books that have merely been lent to you is an entirely different matter, and is (to my mind) just plain wrong.
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The whole borrowing and returning eBooks in this day and age is asinine. They are copies of files. You can copy them endlessly. The guy has been dead for over 25 years. He isn't losing anything. And neither is the library. Such foolishness IMO.
If they are worried about this, then they should provide a goddamn file for each and every single ebook format that exists. Until then, they shouldn't bitch about what users have to do to the files they borrow and then "return"
in order to use them!
An no one should have to pay $11.99 for a book (a file, really, that anyone can make, given the source material, a file by itself costs nothing, is worth nothing, you can't re-sell it) by a guy who has been nearly 30 years. Corporate greed is ruining this country.
/end soapbox.