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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
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We do have water troughs, they're called petrol (gas)stations and the horses were replaced with cars. We're fundamentally doing exactly the same as we did all along. And the problem with your 'adapting' model is that there's no real technical limitation unless we apply the artificial limitation of DRM.
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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.
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This isn't about what
we want, or what is easily doable with the technology we have in hand, but what
they want. By they I mean those who control the media and place the ridiculous DRM on the products we consume.