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Originally Posted by boxcorner
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It's important because we are entering a new era in reading where eBooks we buy are no longer our property in the way paper books are our property - if we go by what Amazon and others are trying to implement.
I believe there is a fundamental difference between software and eBooks. Software is written to produce an action or a product. Continued use produces continued product or continued action. eBooks do not do such a thing and are simply passive texts.
The soon a definitive consideration is issued by the courts the better.
On the other hand whatever the courts say this is never ever going to go the way of the publishers. If the courts decide lease then piracy is going to skyrocket and torrent sites along with them. People, imho, have no intention of standing by and allowing this kind of appalling rip off.