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Originally Posted by The Old Man
If I buy a car and lock myself out I cannot drive the car. I employ the skill of a locksmith who unlocks the car for me. ... The locksmith did not do anything illegal!
If I buy an ebook and cannot read it on my device can I hire a computer nerd to unlock the ebook so I can read it on my device? ...
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The one caveat is that you own the physical property of the car, while you don't own the copyright on the text you paid to read.
Never-the-less, I regard your analogy to be excellent logic. Very good!
This leads to questions about the morality of laws that make it a crime to unlock text that you paid to read. Such laws seem immoral to me. At a minimum we should vote out anyone who wrote or voted for such a law.