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Originally Posted by Sirtel
You still can at the moment. But Amazon is trying to prevent it and we're discussing what that would mean in the future.
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Ah, ok
I can see (hope) this will be an issue that authors themselves may take up. It would only take one or two big name authors to throw their weight behind the issue of digital ownership and DRM to really get the ball rolling. If authors started to threaten to use other platforms (heck they could even collaborate to set their own up) Amazon would soon change their tune.
Having said that it is a difficult one, everyone has understood from the year dot that it is illegal/ immoral to buy any sort of copyrighted media (be it a VHS, DVD, book or ebook) and to then
copy it for the purpose of distribution, but you've always had the freedom to pass on your copy of said media to someone else. It's a whole new(ish) area of technology that everyone is dealing with and some sort of middle ground will have to be found. On the same note one of the downsides to me of ebooks is the inability to have a secondhand market.