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Originally Posted by sirbruce
I just want to point out that whether or not DRMed ebooks are really "rented" or "licensed" rather than "bought" is something yet to be litigated in the US. Indeed, there are many reasons to believe such litigation may come down on the "bought" side of the debate, perhaps thereby defanging the teeth of DRM itself.
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Considering the DMCA, and the claims surrounding the illegality of DVD copying tools (etc), and the fact that that never went to court either, I doubt this will. The only people who would need to would be people who got locked out of their Kindle account (or something similar, perhaps a webshop that was closed), but I doubt many of them will have the money to do something about that.
That said, they will probably win (whoever they would have to sue for that to be meaningful) because of the fact that people expect to buy a copy, rather than a licence, and the other side won't be able to explain satisfactorily why people no longer have a right to own rather than lease a copy, but I doubt this will happen any time soon.