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Old 06-08-2018, 01:58 PM   #3289
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Originally Posted by skinmaan View Post
I think most digital purchases are considered licenses in that you cannot re-sell them or give them away. DRM, though, dictates how you can use the files. If I wanted a DRM audiobook I'll buy it from Audible. I will shop around for DRM-free options like Downpour, Libro.fm, and Audiobooks.com. Kobo had been on the latter list, but if they go to DRM, then I'll not buy sale titles from them.

FWIW, I also don't buy from Google for this same reason.
Good information to know. Thanks. Now, if only I'll remember it when an occasion comes up when I really need the information . . . . ha

There may be limits to what the producers of digital items may do with the licenses that they grant, but it seems that they have a pretty wide latitude. More than forbidding re-sell or giving them away to someone else.

I keep going back to ebooks; I don't know if the rules are close to the same as with audiobooks. But, I had a bad experience with a small digital bookstore, in which my ebook library simply disappeared. Poof! There was no notice that it was about to happen or anything--I just happened to have gone to where my library with this bookstore was supposed to be, and found nothing! (I started a thread, "If You Had a Library with WTS Books, It's GONE Now!" on the "News" sub-forum). To make a long story short, I had a representative grudgingly (it seemed) send me a .zip file with all of the books (which were up in the hundreds) that I had purchased from them over the years. I was probably one of the lucky ones; I feel for the poor saps who found out after it was too late.

So, I'm wary and leary when it comes my rights to anything digital that I "own."

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