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Originally Posted by latepaul
As for "book owner's freedom of possession" - I assume from context you're not referring to the copyright owner? This is probably a tangent to this thread but having read many and participated in a few "license v ownership" debates I'm afraid I fall down on the license side, simply because no-one can explain to me what "owning an ebook" means that doesn't amount to owning the copyright itself (or acting like it)
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Correct. That's the trouble, and that's why I think all this DRM nonsense that tries to tie you to a company or prevents you from reading an ebook on anything but a specific device is missing the point- if there was some way to simply prevent copying the ebook itself, that would be sufficient.