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Old 02-22-2011, 01:44 PM   #132
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian View Post
Indeed. The current status quo is by no means a given. Why am I allowed to buy physical books and re-export them (all on the up and up, sellers will ship them to me), but not ebooks? It really wouldn't take all that much to change that.

Define "simple". The EU, e.g. could do it with a stroke of the (legal) pen by passing a regulation.
I never said anything about not questioning "the given". It's just not nearly as easy to change a law as you think it should be. It takes only a stroke of a pen in the same way a marriage is only saying "I do". There's all the lead-up to the event, then maintaining the new system after the event.
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