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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
There's not much digital content out there currently that you have the ability to sell etc. like you do physical property. And it's hardly just Apple putting DRM on stuff etc. It's a problem that plagues all areas of digital content, aside from music which if finally DRM free--even in iTunes.
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Only because customers demanded the right to play their music on any device they want, and to continue to be able to play it in the event of the company they bought it from going out of business or losing interest (like with Microsoft's mp3 service a while ago).
I was actually quite surprised that ebook sellers had decided to play the same trick on their customers. You wouldn't read a book as often as you listened to a music file, so probably the first time you find out you have to buy it again will be when you decide you want to read it again.