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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Ethically, there is no problem whatsoever other than the fact that they are restricting your rights unfairly.
If the book is only licensed, then why do they call it "buying"? Most people are not aware that you only bought a license. Therefore, I call this "licensing" illegal, since very few people would actually buy an ebook that was only "licensed", and I will happily do anything I want with my property short of duplicating said property and redistributing it.
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It's not at all unreasonable to restrict the number of simultaneous usages for a digital product. Consider the case of, say, a school who buys one copy of an ebook and then distributes it to all their pupils. That's not fair at all to the author or publisher of the book. Usage limits are entirely reasonable.