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Originally Posted by HeffeD
I find it quite interesting that people are up in arms about DRM first in music, then DVDs, now E-Books.
Yet no one complains about software...
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That's because software is different beast - protected by different laws.
Copyright only applies to the software's source code.
Software is mostly protected by patents.
However, you allude to a big problem today:
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The last paper book I purchased tells me that since the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, I'm unable to reproduce, transmit, distribute, store in a database, make a paper hat, use as toilet paper, etc... ANY portion of the book without permission from the publisher first.
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Namely, the siezing of rights. The copyright holder of this work has none of the above rights.
If I purchase a paper book, I can scan it in and create an eBook version of it for my use. I can put that paper book in the mail and transmit it to a friend. I can rip pages out of it and distribute them to people. I can store my eBook version in my database. Etc.
The ONLY thing that I am prohibited from doing is making a copy for distribution. That's it. Any other "rights" are solely the delusion of the copyright holder.