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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Is a copy of an e-book the same as a copy of a printed book? Not in the eyes of the law, the property rights or the intellectual rights holder. It has physical form, therefore it is a distinct entity
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Er.... Bull?
You're blurring the issue (again) with logically wrong arguments (again).
Your electron story doesn't fly. If you have a p-book for sale in your shop, and I come and take it, I've committed theft (and you're short one p-book).
If I hack your website and copy one of of your books in its ebook format, whoa lookee :
you still have that file on your server!
To use your image, the electrons that compose it are still on your drive, arranged in a way that a computer can translate to what you've written. Physically, the only thing I've done is rearrange electrons on my drive so they have the same pattern as those on yours. The only thing that has been exchanged is information (and you'll note I said exchanged, not taken). Your electrons are still yours.
The thing, with the advent of the digital age, we now have objects (computers and so on) that are able to do what was before the exclusive realm of brains : exchange of information without need of a physical medium.