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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's not too far removed from buying a paper book. You are buying the sheets of paper, but not the "ownership" of the contents. You can't go out and re-publish that content and sell it for yourself. Generally speaking, you have no rights at all over that content.
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I'm not a proponent of DRM, but it's also very similar to paper in that you aren't able to transfer it to another medium (easily).
Technically speaking, given the various
tools out there, you can do more with a DRM'ed electronic copy of a book, than you can a dead tree version.