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Originally Posted by sircastor
The publishing industry (generalization) would like to treat ebooks like print books, with some exceptions, They want to manage:
* The means through which you get the media
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Which is a right granted to them by copyright law
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* How you read the media
* What you can do with the media.
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Yes, they want to mange these, but there is no legal basis for it beyond what's already protected by copyright for physical books. What is allowed by law they are attempting to take away with DRM.
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The ebook you bought is no longer just a singular representation of the Intellectual Property. The barrier to entry of reproducing, manipulating, and distributing this representation is significantly small
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None of which is what we're asking for.
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DRM is a means of trying to force ebooks into the functional space of print books, without the problems.
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No, DRM
could be a means of forcing eBooks into the functional space of print books, but it is instead deliberately forcing ebooks into a smaller functional space than print books.