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rrburton · 06-29-2009, 12:45 PM

HarryT has the right angle. Regardless of the legality of a vendor's rules if you participate in them you have agreed to them. Doesn't make sense to me to be forced to agree to illegal terms to be able to make a purchase but if you did then you did.

As far as reselling DRMd material I'm all for it. I bought the copy and should be able to transfer it to someone and they should be able to transfer and so on, just like a regular book or cd or dvd or painting or whatever. Making an unauthorized copy breaks the rules. Being that it is an electronic format and DRM really isn't mature yet makes for a whole lot of trouble. I sure hope technology advances soon. I see that the only way for this to really get worked out is that it is going to have to happen a lot and get challenged.

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Oh and one other thing I was thinking about - wouldn't one think that the cost for a limited license electronic version of a work should be less than a fully transferrable printed version?

06-29-2009, 12:45 PM	#34
rrburton Connoisseur Posts: 58 Karma: 942 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: iPad	HarryT has the right angle. Regardless of the legality of a vendor's rules if you participate in them you have agreed to them. Doesn't make sense to me to be forced to agree to illegal terms to be able to make a purchase but if you did then you did. As far as reselling DRMd material I'm all for it. I bought the copy and should be able to transfer it to someone and they should be able to transfer and so on, just like a regular book or cd or dvd or painting or whatever. Making an unauthorized copy breaks the rules. Being that it is an electronic format and DRM really isn't mature yet makes for a whole lot of trouble. I sure hope technology advances soon. I see that the only way for this to really get worked out is that it is going to have to happen a lot and get challenged. --edit-- Oh and one other thing I was thinking about - wouldn't one think that the cost for a limited license electronic version of a work should be less than a fully transferrable printed version? Last edited by rrburton; 06-29-2009 at 12:47 PM.