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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Is there any real difference to my buying an eBook, putting it on my Reader, reading it, loaning my wife my Reader so she can then read that book vs. my putting a copy of that eBook on my Wife's Reader so she can read it without having to wait until I am done reading it?
The only real difference is that she doesn't have to wait for me to finish. If I didn't strip DRM, I have enough slots in the DRM scheme that I could put it on her Reader with DRM anyway.
Does anyone have any objection to scenario #1 and/or #2? You know it happens and you know it will continue to happen. I cannot think of many household that would buy multiple copies of the same book (e or p) and not share it if others in the house also wanted to read it.
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No, Jon:
I don't see any difference, and virtually (no pun intended) every retailer out there now has some type of eBook "lending" program, in which you could lend the book to your wife. That doesn't even faze me (DRM stripping or not). But you know full well that's not really what I'm talking about. I'm talking about when Fred Doe brings home his ebook/program and copies it for 10 friends, or 5, and they copy it for 5. Then those 25 copy it for 5. (Or, hey, let's just that ONLY 5 of the 25 copy it for 5 more...it still adds up). It's arithmetic. That's what happened with Lotus.
Hitch