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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sorry, but you are incorrect.
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Ya, right.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.
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Proves me correct. I can do whatever I want with the pBook - up to reproducing it.
Looking through all the pBooks I have at arm's length here, I see nothing that says that I can't loan the book to a friend. I see nothing that says I can't transfer ownership to someone else. Even if it did say that, I can safely ignore it because it wouldn't hold up in court.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
You can indeed do whatever you wish with the physical book, yes. Just as you can do whatever you wish with the e-Book file that you've downloaded.
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I cannot transfer ownership of the DRMed eBook.
I cannot loan the DRMed eBook.
So, you are incorrect. I cannot do whatever I wish with the DRMed eBook I downloaded.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's all that DRM is doing - preventing you from reproducing or transmitting the contents of the eBook to a third party. It's no different.
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This is the same Smoke and Mirrors that the pro-DRM people like to spew: "DRM is only there to keep you from copying the eBook".
But it's already been proven, DRM only prohibits honest people from exercising their rights.
The DRM is violating my First Sale rights.
The DRM is preventing me from transferring ownership.
Therefore any DRMed eBook is not SOLD. You do not own a DRMed eBook like you own a pBook. When you pay money for a DRMed eBook, you are getting nothing more than a restrictive license to USE that eBook on a specific reader.