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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Those are two completely different things. Sharing the eBooks without authorization is clearly a copyright infringement. However, I don't see how selling an eBook Reader with a PID is illegal. Now if you keep copies of the content for yourself, then that's a problem. But selling a reader along with exclusive access to the content doesn't seem to violate any clauses of copyright that I've ever heard of.
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I think this is a main point. When you buy a DRMed e-book, you do it linked to a device. So, in any case, if you sell the device, strictly, you would lose the rights over the books, which I think they would allow to the new owner.