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Originally Posted by DrMoze
Minor point on the "book sharing": with p-books, it is pretty straightforward, one copy is all there is. With e-books, all of a sudden you can have widespread "sharing" (even between strangers) and hundreds/thousands of unauthorized copies, 'shared' around the globe instantly, from 1 e-book. (I'm an IP attorney by day--some evenings too!--so I do know a bit about copyright, piracy, etc.)
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Yes, e-books enable easier widespread piracy: that isn't casual and it's true as soon as someone scans the book into an unprotected format. Since DRM has zero impact once it's been stripped away (or never been put on in the first place), it's worse than useless. The only thing DRM on e-books will stop is friends sharing with each other, which is legal with a paper book! Albeit the DRM might allow friends to move the e-book instead of copy it (which is more analogous to sharing a single copy of a paper book), but it's almost guaranteed to be a hassle: in many cases that kind of supervised sharing will be more of a hassle than just finding a site to download the DRM-free versions.
Bzpilman, any idea when you'll be able to try the OI firmware?