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Originally Posted by darryl
I suspect that there are a great many ebook buyers who are indifferent to the terms of the license granted and have no intention whatsoever of being bound by all of its terms, particularly the unreasonable ones. For instance, a paid-for license revocable at will, and requiring the deletion of all copies you may have. Even Amazon's license for ebooks, which is far more reasonable than many, is honoured more in the breach than the observance by many members here:
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This is totally true. The fact of the matter is that most of these applications to read DRMd ebooks are tied to a specific device, and if the device dies, one's ability to access the ebook can be lost forever. These licenses are pretty one-sided, and fortunately it's hard to detect violations if one doesn't give away copies of their personal collection.