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Originally Posted by HarryT
Still dubious, TM. Let's take it to extremes, and see how it looks: a school buys 50 readers, buys one copy of a book needed for a particular subject, strips the DRM, and loads it onto all 50 readers which it then lends out to all the pupils who are studying the subject. Fair use? I don't think so.
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But Tubemonkey said he/she loaned the entire reader. From that I assumed that he had the copy of the book on that reader (not that he loaded it on twenty different readers). FWIW, Amazon already licenses one copy of a book to a "family of readers" so long as they are on the same account.
And I know you know all this. And the point remains that we have to try to be "fair." Writing and reading a book is a partnership/purchase between two parties. It's a constant dance trying to make the whole thing work. Not everyone is trying, of course, which is why DRM exists in the first place.