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Originally Posted by jbjb
Harry - how would you regard removing DRM and giving a copy to a friend, if the original copy is deleted (so that only one copy exists)? If I then trust my friend to delete his copy when he gives it back there is still only one copy in existence at any one time. Would you regard this as ethically sound, and if not, why not?
/JB
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I'd regard it as absolutely fine. The problem is that it's completely impractical. It's pretty much impossible for you to delete all your copies. It will still be in your account at the bookstore; it will (if you have any common sense!) be backed up multiple times on different physical drives in different locations, and so on. I don't know about you, but my goal in life, when it comes to ebooks, is to try my damnedest to ensure that I don't lose all my copies of my ebooks
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