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Originally Posted by rflashman
Usually illegal acts are considered unethical. It is illegal in the United States to circumvent the DRM protection of a file.
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I could list a number of questions that would poke a hole in your theory. But the main reason I disagree is that I think you have it backwards. Some actions have been made illegal because someone thought the action was unethical or immoral.
I didn't intend to spark this debate about reselling an ebook. I'm now glad that I did. If amazon is going to go after the textbook market, then they will have to do something about the resale market. I usually buy my textbooks online, and sell them back to the campus bookstore. If I am going to pay the same amount for a textbook on my Kindle, then I must insist on the ability to resell it at a later time. If I can't resell it, then it is worth much less than the hardcopy.
I don't think Amazon thought about the resale of textbooks, and that could be a major blunder on their part.