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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
OTOH, if ebooks could legally be resold, there'd be a lot less incentive to mass-distribute free copies. Customers would look for ways to restrict access to the books they bought & hoped to resell. They wouldn't blithely participate in mass torrenting and fileshare sites.
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That's just silly. People mass distribute digital content because they have no regard for intellectual property. There is no justification or incentive such that if the content author changed their ways, the pirates would respect their ip.
Why would anyone pay you for your "used ebook" <stifles a snicker> when they can just steal the file. If they are going to steal from the author, why would they not steal from some guy trying to resell is "used" digital file <ok, now I can't actually hold the laughter in>
Lee