On 4/15/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I have already determined there is nothign stopping me from taking my ebooks > from one device to another without restrictions. I took them from my Treo to > my Pre and could have had them running on both without issue. > > This is the part of ebooks (and e other things) that really bothers/scares > me - that we will be restricted one day in what we can do with what we buy. > Providers want us to view this as "borrowed" and not "owned". I can see the > day when providers put a deadline that kills the product regardless of > whether you have read it, or want to read it 100 times. I have some books > (Lord of the Rings, for example) that has been read by everyone in my house > over the course of 15 years. And has been borrowed by my brother, also.
that day's already here with HDCP on the TV, DRM on the music and eBooks and activation codes on software. I remember when Turbo Tax (speaking of the Intuit recurring-revenue streams) tried to limit you to one return per software purchase! I think they've upped it to 5 now.
