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Originally Posted by ultim8fury
How is this in any way in the interest of the rights holder ? they make absolutely no cash on the sale of second-hand books.
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This is how it has always been with with paper books. The rights holder gets nothing from secondhand sales. In the case of paper books rights holders have always accepted this and we are allowed to sell on the books we purchase with few restrictions. Similar is the case with normal music CDs, which have always been unprotected - the publishers don't like it, but they still get copied. Another way of thinking of this is that the rights owner is getting a "Mechanical Copyright" payment for every legitimate physical copy of the product pressed under the agreement with the publisher, regardless of whether that copy is sold on, copied or whatever. This is the way that the media distribution market has always worked up to now, simply because there was no other option.
The DRM brigade, not content with simply copying the market model of paper books, is trying to rein in our rights as much as possible. IMO this is a retrograde step and instead of stimulating uptake of the technology motivates people to find ways of breaking the copyright protection.
They just don't get it - offer a cheap, flexible service which gives people what they are used to, and everyone will buy it without question. Try to screw people into the ground and you'll just get their backs up. Just because you CAN control things more with DRM doesn't necessarily mean that you SHOULD do so.