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Originally Posted by MrPLD
Strictly speaking, I think it's very simple.
1. The author/publisher has decided on what terms their work can be obtained.
2. You have no legal or moral right to that media outside of what the creators have offered.
3. If you don't like it, tough.
In short, you have no implied rights to anything anyone created outside of their stipulated terms. It's their work, their choice.
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PLD, that makes sense for most products, but I don't think that it is true for the written word. Virtually every country has copyright law which trumps the desires of the author and publisher.
And every copyright law I am aware of calls for there to be a time when the work is public domain whether the author and publisher like it or not.
And each government is free to change the copyright law of its jurisdiction retroactively, again regardless of the preferences of the author and publisher.