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Originally Posted by Robertb
Dear All:
I think you have to look at the INTENT. The intent is to prevent the passing of copyrighted books to others. This can be done by sharing the eBooks (which the PID helps prevent) and by selling the eBook Reader with the PID on it. Either one is illegal.
You have to ask yourself: "DO I Feel Lucky" (in the immortal words of Dirty Harry)? Will you likely profit and have no problem (likely yes) but IF this gets too big then you can bet there will be legal hell to pay.
I advise against it.
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I think your missing the point of the poster, he's not saying selling multiple copies of a DRM book. He's saying selling the original content.
My question to you is why is selling used eBooks illegal but selling used software legal. Both are digital content and both commonly have some sort of DRM scheme. Also what makes the selling the media with DRM scheme any more illegal/unethical than without a DRM scheme. ...it is not the DRM you are buying it's the media.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
But when you do that, you are not making a copy of the book. If you copy a file, you are making a copy. Therein lies the difference.
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Nobody has said selling a copy they are discussing the selling the original content. So for the sake of argument lets say they use the "move" command instead of the copy this way nobody is making a copy.
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