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Old 06-19-2007, 04:22 PM   #76
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Not so. You are buying the medium (the file) and a licence to run it on your specific device. Computer software works the same way.

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.
Wrong. When I purchase a pBook, I have a certain set of rights relating to the physical book. I can do anything I want to with that pBook - up to making a copy of it.

With DRM, if I get an eBook, I have no rights.

That's why DRM means "Digital Restriction Management."
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