It turns out the book he had read was a fan-made harry potter spin-off, probably written before book four actually came out, but it was good enough that, while a few parts seemed strange, he did not notice it was a fake until he saw the inconsistencies to the following tome.

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First, that their limited license to read a work on a device or within software of their choosing is equivalent to the purchase of a physical item.

Second, that the vast majority of e-books are persistent objects rather than disposable culture..

Just as with music, DRM will be cracked.

As more people possess portable reading devices, the demand and availability for pirated content will also rise.

Many popular e-books can now be found easily on file-sharing sites, something that was not the case even a few months ago, as Adrian Hon recently pointed out.).

Hopefully there will be some publishers who take maximum advantage of the book loaning and see a big benefit from it.

Im not expecting the big name publishers to take advantage of it initially, but hopefully some small names will and will gain from it.

Its almost insulting that the offer it, probably doing so only to deflect regulator attention for violating consumers rights.

Its the same deal offered by the publishers to Barnes Noble for Nook users.

Not Amazons doing, in other words).

They have found a way to end run the First Sale Doctrine, by controlling right after the purchase.

Non infringing resale is essentially impossible, and even loans or gifts are not possible.

The problem is no consumer group exists which can fight all the way to the Supreme Court, which is probably what it will take.

Legislation is not the answer here -- let alone asking the Supreme Court to somehow bestow some bizarre new right upon you out of thin air.

They may have a right to control whether an ebook is accessible on a particular reading device.

Once I have access (regardless of the means) I have the legal ability to read the document.

If you are talking about the data in the book, the same is true for physical books.

The only thing you actually own is the medium, not the copyrigh.

I can see an automatic return after 14 days (Id love that with real books; too many loaners gone for good), but the only once thing makes it heinous.

Even many years ago there existed a usenet board I used to frequent where a constant stream of books were distributed - painstakeingly scanned, OCRed and (hopefully) proof-read by enthusiasts.

Its been a long time since I was witness to the ebook piracy scene, but from what rumors I have heard the real action there now resides on a few DC hubs.

I still have them, thousands of downloaded books, sitting around in a folder somewhere probably taking less than 100 megs of space.

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I managed to get all of the Discworld, Sword of truth series, and Douglas adams books plus a couple of series that arent in print anymore.

When youre dealing with that kind of dedication to scan inform.

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