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Originally Posted by Shaggy
DRM already tracks eBooks sales. Everytime you buy/download an eBook you have an individual file that can only be unlocked by an individual key. How else do you think they do that without managing it by individual sale?
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AH, but to manage it globally such that a product can be sold to another consumer does not exist. To sell the book would require reassigning it via the registration to the the new owner and assuring that it was removed/deactivated for the current owner and updating the seller as well to remove the ability to re-download. It currently does nothing like that. It simply validates the consumer account and encodes the sell using the key it has and all is done with that sale as far at the drm provider is concerned.
But to really get to the core of what you are asserting. Regardless of being on the board or not, why would a publisher want to specifically prevent you from sharing a book? You are claiming that they are intentionally taking that right away from the consumer. Why, what purpose of the publisher would that server, what benefit or monetary gain is to be made from it?