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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It would be easy for them to "re-register" a given ebook, by removing your registration from it and transferring it to someone else. The transfer would have to be done by their servers (and would not "remove access" to that book on any device that wasn't connected--but as soon as that device tried to validate a new book, it'd connect to the server & lose the ability to read the transferred book).
Since that takes effort (miniscule, but effort), the DRM server company could charge a fee for it--perhaps a dollar to transfer ownership of the file. This would allow people to sell used ebooks for, say, $2-3, and make a small profit.
Publishers won't go for it. They want to lock people into 1 purchase=1 reader.
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I was not even thinking of a 'registration' more like a simple activation. An actual registration where you need to give up your name and other information would be too onerous and I think a lot of people would be resistant to that as well.
On the other hand I can see that being a much easier way than having some central server somewhere try to keep track of what device or PC a book is active on and who really has the rights? So maybe a simple registration handled through the software on the person individual PC would work. It would need to be minimally invasive though.