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Originally Posted by guyanonymous
So dmaul - where is the point drawn? Giving it to one person? 2? 3? 10?
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I think it will largely have to be drawn to putting it on torrents and other file sharing sites for anyone to grab.
I mean think of a paper book. Nothing it stopping you from loaning it to everyone you know over a year or two as you loan it out and get it back and loan it to someone else etc.
And that's perfectly legal, so it's hard to not think people should be able to do the same with an e-book they bought.
Maybe we'll see a unified e-book format down the road, with a unified DRM scheme that allows lending to one person at a time (like the Nook), giving e-books away permanently etc.
But unless that happens, there won't be much they can do to stop people from giving/loaning copies to friends and family. Best that can be done is focus on the darknets where one copy can get to hundreds or thousands of people, who then put their illegal copy up on their own torrents etc.