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license vs DRM
Would it be possible or even feasible to have licenses for books instead of DRM. With restrictions in place for most DRM schemes you can't loan, trade, give away, or sell your eBooks that you purchased.
What if, instead of the DRM, you got a license for that eBook that had to be entered to read it. The license would be yours to keep and do with what you like. Someone, publishers, or book sellers, or a third party would need to keep a license server somewhere to allow for the verification and authorization - that would be fairly easy to set up. The harder part would be in setting up all the readers to handle the licenses and authorization process and in getting them and the publishers to handle it the same way.
Sure there will still be piracy and license algorithms will get cracked but with more rights to the eBooks there will, hopefully, be less incentive to do that.
I'm sure there are a lot of considerations I didn't list or even think of but I just wanted to get this out there.
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