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In discussing copyright it's too easy to confuse what ought to be with what is.
We'd all like it if we could do everything with an ebook exactly as we can with a printed book. But they're obviously different. Those differences bear directly on how you can use it and, importantly, whether or not you can make copies or share it.
Copyright and DRM are there to protect the rights of creators. Sometimes this results in silliness, but that is true of most legal arrangements. They're artificial, but they're there for a worthy reason.
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