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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. 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.
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You're both trying to fit a new technological world back into the old mold. Just doing it differently.
It's like trying to discuss how to return to medieval chivalry twenty years after cannons have started blasting castles into rubble, and blowing knight out of their saddles....