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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
If you "give" an electronic copy of ANYTHING to someone, you should delete the original unless it's out of copyright.
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Yes, this is exactly what I though of when I was writing about "giving books". There should be a way to give electronic books, forcing you in the process to delete (or disable) your own copy. As for the lend process, the original copy should be disabled so long the book hasn't been returned.
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
Boycott DRM.
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I completely understand you. I use to boycott many things which are too proprietary for my taste. I'm a happy Linux user and I avoid some companies as much as I can. The current problem is that I don't see how we can prevent piracy if it is easy for everyone to pirate electronic contents. People tend to prefer to keep it easy, so long it stays either free or not to expensive. We see that with other electronic contents such as movies and music. Since there exist now platforms like Netflix and Spotify, there is less and less piracy of contents which can be found there. And these are proprietary companies, because they protect proprietary material. Movies, songs and books, these are all copyrighted contents.
(Nonetheless, I don't like companies growing a monopoly. Netflix starts to have some concurrence in some countries and this is good so. As for Adobe with their DRM, it is a pitty that they don't have concurrence as well. I opine that it should be Kobo, Kindle and the like, on their own which should make sure that the contents stay protected.)
Basically, I see two things possible : either stop using DRMs, but create at the same time a way that is so easy to use in order to share books with friends (disabling the original copy so long the lent book has not been returned) that it will be used by most users, cutting down piracy since people buy the books in the first hand; or keep using DRMs, but create the same system as in the previous case, which would avoid people breaking the DRMs for no reason. Moreover, this would remove all the hassle for the inexperienced people which do not know how to realise such a basic thing as lend a book, bypassing the DRMs. If the DRMs aren't so restrictive as they now are, they would become less evil ^^
This is obviously only an opinion of mine, and I would be glad to discuss more on this subject, since other opinions can be very interesting to hear.
And there is no doubt in the fact that Rakuten prefer anyway to keep using these DRMs, so if we are to ask a feature, we'd better keep from asking for the moon.
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
The Amazon Kindle method is a bit toxic
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What do you mean with that ??