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Originally Posted by sirbruce
This is not a discussion about DRM; this is a discussion about copyright.
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Which (copyright law regarding books) is principally flawed, as it is concentrating on the ownership of the medium (in olde days: a printed copy of the book), and not on the protection of the integral text of the work of art. What with ebooks? The authors should scream at Sony and Amazon because they allow us to download a (DRMed, but this is irrelevant) copy of the ebook as many times as we please?
The purpose of the book is not to be owned and displayed on my bookshelf. The purpose of the book is to be read. Copyright law concentrates on the first (ownership of the medium), ignores the second (a right to read the book as an asset that is principally sold by authors).
So, the whole system is challenged, and needs overhaul. The issue of "how long should copyright last" is secondary to "what sort of copyright is adequate to this, digital, era".