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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I'm not sure why you think it's so difficult to create a DRM system that supports lending/selling eBooks. It already exists, Publishers are just choosing to artificially limit it (or outright not allowing it).
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It does not exist. It would have to be implemented. The B&N/Adobe social drm is the closest thing as I see it to what you are wanting, but it does not fully duplicate the "rights" one has with paper book. It would have to allow for removing that book from a purchasers authorizations on both the that persons computer and at the seller on an individual book basis which means keeping track at a central site of all ebook sales for that type of drm. The Social-DRM as implement is no where near that complicated and is probably easily circumvented -- I don't have experience with it so can't say for sure -- but I do know that it is not near the complexity needed to assure that a ebook sell has the same characteristics as a pbook. But that begs the question which Ralph has raised -- why should it be the same? I don't know. And I don't know that it should all I am advocating it protection of the creator's rights along with consumer rights.
However we get there is good for me.
