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Originally Posted by kennyc
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.
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The technology to make eBooks work like pBooks with regards to the consumer rights we're talking about is trivial, and in at least one case already exists. Whether it only lets you do it one time, or one at a time (like pBooks) doesn't matter. That's just an artificial limitation. They could certainly support the latter if they wanted to, and it would give consumers the exact same right they already have today with pBooks.
Technically, there is nothing that would prevent the design of a DRM system that would allow for the transfer of a license to 1 person at a time, and then when they return it transfer it again, just like pBooks. The only reason DRM systems don't support that is because they choose not to, not because they can't.