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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Ah, but could you transfer the product to another person? One of the problems with DRM is that it interferes with loaning & resale rights.
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That clearly marks DRM as an impediment from doing things the way we always did... but if that was what we wanted, why are we reading e-books?
One of the things about progress and change in media is that the things we can do with the old media often change for the new media. In the same way we no longer put water troughs in the streets for resting horses to drink from, or we now bypass the quaint country roads to cruise down the interstates, we may have to adapt to new ways of handling e-books, and stop doing other things we used to do with printed books.
It may be that reselling e-books simply isn't in our future, and even loaning may go through some major change to accommodate the new medium. This may seem bad to us... but it may seem perfectly normal and acceptable to our descendants.