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Originally Posted by BoldlyDubious
No. I didn't say that (in the social DRM scheme I'm proposing) you buy the intellectual property of an ebook. You buy a copy of its contents stored on file, just as you would buy a copy of its contents stored on paper.
Then, you can do whatever you want with the file you bought, but you are responsible for what you do.
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The intellectual property is the copyright.
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By the way, in this particular case the analogy with paper books holds. If I buy a paper book, scan it and publish its contents on a torrent site I *am* infringing someone else's intellectual property.
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But that's exactly why it doesn't hold - you can lend out the physical object of the book, you can't copy the contents of the book. The file is like the contents. A file is not a physical object, it's part of the state of a physical object such as a hard drive.