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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Let's say DRM'ed ebooks all go away.
Oh, there go contemporary, copyrighted-ebook lending libraries.
No DRM, no ebook libraries.
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Yes, that's a good point.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Notice the technology is called Digital Rights *Management* not Digital Use Limitation.
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I confess, I am more concerned about what the technology does to me than about what it should be doing, or pretends to be doing
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
DRM is just a tool and a feature of business models. Don't blame the tool, which can be used to enable as well as disable functionality, for its misuse by idiots in the BPHs.
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But maybe it's just the tool that is badly implemented? Or rather the tools. I wouldn't mind DRM so much if there was a common format and a common DRM scheme to all e-books. Then there would be no need to convert e-books to change devices (which is not only annoying as heck, but DRM just won't allow me to do it), and a (reasonable) limit to the number of devices could be acceptable.