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Originally Posted by Ankh
It is not a COPYRIGHT, but your capability to use THAT copy is severely limited, would you agree?
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Yes and no.
Yes, in that if I buy a DRMed copy of a Dickens book, I cannot legally break the DRM and redistribute that specific copy.
No, in that I can still take any portion of the book (excepting, say, an essay written recently and copyrighted) and do what I want with the actual text. Or I can get the same text from a multitude of methods.
E.g. I get
A Tale of Two Cities for the Nook, and want to read it on another device. Even if I can't read that specific copy, or legally crack the DRM and move it, it is trivially easy to get a legal non-DRM protected copy of the text.
Thus there are almost no practical effects of the limitation.