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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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That falls under the category of redistribution. Clearly Baen and Tor and anyone else who publishes DRM-free aren't worried about this kind of piracy. Usage limits are just as reasonable as DRM itself
, and make owning multiple devices less useful; the problem is reading, not having, on multiple devices.
I can circumvent this restriction by deleting a book on one Kindle and replacing it with the WiFi off from calibre -- even if the DRM was still there.
