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Why can’t DRM technology be programmed to reflect real life? You know, five years after having downloaded that award-winning novel you should be able to sell it on for a quarter of the price. Ten dog-eared years later, you should be able to donate it to charity. If it was a real bummer – ie hardly sold any downloads after critics slated it - you should be able to put it in a box with 20 others at your garage sale for mere pence (OK, put in on e-bay).
And you should be able to lend it to family and friends (OK, allow - as is now possible – for it to be installed on six different machines).
Me, I’m just an old-fashioned reader fed up with carrying heavy volumes with me all the time. I’m all for this open-book architecture lark while realising the labourer (artist/author) is worthy of his hire. Yes, I’ll pay so they can have their royalties…but why should I continually line the pockets of software companies after initially paying upfront for their reader?
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