Then it's time to start getting the laws of several countries updated to reflect reality. When I go into a site and buy an e-book, I'm buying a product, not a license to read someone's creation. It might be electrons in my e-reader's memory, but it's mine, and I can give it away, lend it, erase it, copy bits of it, etc., as I can with a p-book. Perhaps we should begin dropping the 'e' and 'p', and just call them all books.
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