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Of course you can 'own' an ebook. Unfortunately this means that you often have to commit an act of 'piracy' by defeating the DRM to extract the file from your
by kwhitefoot 9y ago
Of course you can 'own' an ebook. Unfortunately this means that you often have to commit an act of 'piracy' by defeating the DRM to extract the file from your reader.
As for the courts stepping in, be careful what you wish for because the only way to have 'owning' an ebook work the same way as owning a physical book is for there to be unbreakable DRM and/or draconian penalties for breaking it together with a register of who has the right to read it at any given moment and a list of legally allowed devices that it can be read on.
No thanks.
- otakucode 9y agoI don't understand how you make that leap. Physical books can be copied or stolen. We are still allowed to own and buy and sell them without any unbreakable system to track their ownership, or a register of who has the right to read the book at any given time, or anything of the sort.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoOwnership in that sense is contingent on there being a physical object that is expensive to reproduce. The only way of mimicking that for ebooks is DRM.