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Originally Posted by Hitch
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
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Speaking of Lotus 1-2-3, that was one of the worst DRM systems ever developed. Many people lost use of a program that paid good money for while those who pirated it had no problem as they didn't have to deal with the DRM. If your hard drive crapped out, you could not install 1-2-3 again as to do that you had to uninstall it so the DRM could write back to the floppy disk that it was allowed to be installed again. So if the floppy disk or the hard drive developed a fault, goodbye 1-2-3.
When I give out eBooks to family, I know they do not then turn around and give out to others. So I'm good in that way.