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Originally Posted by HarryT
But you can't "do whatever you want" with any book, paper books included. You own the paper and ink when you buy a paper book, but you have an extremely restricted set of rights when it comes to what you can do with the contents of the book. The same is true with ebooks, only there there's no physical medium to "own", of course, so all you're left with are the right granted by the rights-holder, just as with a paper book.
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In the DRM debate context the key issue is transportability.
Being able to backup the ebook is critical since you can't transfer the license. If the license is yours forever then you had better be able to read it forever.