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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I tend to think that: - Either you own it or they should stop lying by using the word "buy" on the button
- Even if it were a perpetual license, you have a non-transferable perpetual license to read it, which is reasonable enough, but you also have the right to use that license (permission to utilize/read/whatever) any way you choose, which is also reasonable enough even if the law hasn't caught up.
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Case in point: NOOKStudy content
I'm rather ticked off that I can no longer use the many NOOKStudy books I "own". NOOKStudy books' special DRM renders them readable only via the NOOKStudy app, said app stopped working over a year ago, and
the app's no longer supported.
The NOOKStudy app has been supplanted by
Yuzu, and Yuzu doesn't support those books, either. BN's attitude: if the same books were being offered via Yuzu, then we'd make them accessible to you via Yuzu. But since they are not, then ... sorry, Charlie! (My paraphrasing.)
The NOOKStudy books reside on my hard drive, and I'd have no qualms about de-DRMing them - since there's no other possible way for me to read them - but AFAIK, there's no way to do so. Even BN can't-or-won't DRM them for me.