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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But with a paper book, you sell it and it's gone. You no longer have access to it.
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If I sell my house, it's not gone. I still have access to it if I kept a key. That doesn't mean I can't sell it--or even that I'm legally forbidden to keep a key. It does mean that accessing it again without permission of the new owner is illegal. (In the case of ebooks, this might translate to, "the only legal reason for re-downloading the book is to send it along to its new owner," since ebook stores won't transfer their listings.)
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Also, if you don't have the receipt how do we know you didn't say get it from the library and claim you got it from someplace that's out of business?
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It's not my job to keep receipts of every purchase I make or every item I legally acquire. If someone believes I've committed a crime in getting/owning an item, it's their responsibility to prove it in court.
I own plenty of physical books I don't have receipts for; I'm not expected to prove I didn't steal those. I'm not willing to accept that I have to produce evidence that I didn't illegally acquire my ebooks.