Quote:
Originally Posted by ottischwenk
The problem with this is that you don't buy a book, just a license for a file that is handled in a similar way to a paper book.
If you want a second paper book, you have to pay for it again. You can of course photocopy it, then only you have permission to read the original and the copy at the same time.
The moment you pass one of these on to someone else, you must destroy the other copy.
I know that hardly anywhere else is so much stolen as from EReader owners, because hardly anyone pays for the file copies actually used.
And I allow myself to consider those who do this consciously as thieves.
|
You have the most extreme interpretation I've ever come across. How you think I haven't paid for a book when I've given money to the publisher in return for a licence to read the book, I can't really imagine.
DRM is intended to prevent people giving copies of digital goods to all and sundry, thus depriving authors and publishers of their income. It was never intended to prevent people reading their own purchased books (although that is a common outcome).