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Originally Posted by nekokami
It's a fair concern. I'm not sure I agree that it would destroy the eBook industry to have DRM brought down, though.
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No, I wasn't talking about DRM, but about whether or not the license restrictions imposed by companies like "Fictionwise" are "legal" or not - ie the conditions that (for example) you can't resell copies of the book.
Someone said recently that the owner of Fictionwise said that he sells 10x as many DRM-free books as DRM-ed ones. What's going to happen if it suddenly becomes legal to give away copies of DRM-free books? The most likely outcome, I suspect, is that publishers would stop producing them.