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Originally Posted by Shaggy
This is exactly why you are wrong. It has already been done, but the publishers won't allow it. There is no inherent reason that the old rules can not continue for the old possibilities. It is already technically possible to lend 1 digital copy to 1 and only 1 person at a time. They have made a deliberate choice to prevent it.
Yes, new rules have to be made for the new possibilities (lending to multiple people at the same time), but that is not what we're talking about.
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I'm not wrong, the technology has changed. You want ebooks to work like pbooks, they can't, they never will, they are different, the system must change. DRM has been put in place by the publishers as an initial attempt to protect their rights, and by extension those of the author (at the expense of customer rights certainly) but that is not the final answer, the entire industry is in flux and must change to accommodate the new technology, it's not there yet and will likely end up the same place as the music industry, but we're not there yet.
This IS what we are talking about. B&N and Adobe have implemented their Social DRM which allows sharing one book one time. You failed to mention the One Time thing. This is not the same as sharing or giving away a paper book.