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Originally Posted by arjaybe
Using the ebooks-are-licensed-like-software argument, shouldn't we also accept limits on how many documents we can create with a word processor? If a library is to be limited to 26 lends by the license, shouldn't authors be limited to, say, 1,000 documents by the license on their word processor? After all, you only need to buy the program once and you can use it forever, depriving the vendor of the income it's entitled to.
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Except software is changing. The newest releases of Adobe's software (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc) are only available on a subscription basis as part of their Creative Cloud and the apps have to validate online every 30 days for month-to-month members or every 99 days for annual members. Pretty sure Adobe isn't the first to have done this either.