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Originally Posted by Moejoe
And how ridiculous is that for a start? Once it's on my hard drive, or I hold it in my hands, there's no stopping what I can do as long as it's for private consumption. They can invent as many laws as they want, they can wrap all culture up in DRM, but in the end, alone, without them standing over me, the law is meaningless.
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It's not "ridiculous" at all, unless you'd consider it "acceptable" to photocopy 10 copies of a pBook and give those photocopies to your friends? That's what the law is there to prevent you doing. It just happens that making copies of a pBook is probably more effort than most people are willing to go to, but that doesn't apply to digital data, of course. Would you consider it acceptable to copy an eBook and give copies to your friends?