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Originally Posted by ApK
I'm sorry, but this whole discussion of "rent, lease, buy" is misapplied and irrelevant. Digital intellectual property is DIFFERENT than physical goods, and you have DIFFERENT rights concerning it's use. To try to claim an entitlement to someone's IP because of what you can or can't do to a car you buy is NOT appropriate, and trying to shoehorn the terms from one to fit the other can only lead to disapointment.
Fact is, whether you "buy" a paperback or an ebook, you STILL have only certain restricted licensed rights, most notably those governed by copyright law, as to what you can do with the content.
Stop trying to say that because you can resell your car, you should be able to resell an ebook. It's as invalid an argument as saying that because you can breath air, you should be able to breath a paperback.
If you only want the right on one because you have it on the other, then get over it, they are different things, with different properties, and it's more than reasonable that they have different rules.
If, on the other hand, you believe you should have a certain right on it's own merits, as for example, I believe we should have the right to read ebooks on the device of our choice, then argue it that way, on it's merits.
Laws and corporate policy can and do change all the time. Yes, the "industry" has influence in that area, but so do consumers and citizens. With our combined tax dollars and consumer spending, we can be just as effective as they are.
ApK
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Dead wrong. Every right you desire to have for copyright exists as is in the law...for a lease.
No you do not get to change the language and have the world go along with it just so you can compete better with your lease against someone who mis offering a similar product for sale at that price.
Your torturous apples and chainsaws analogies detract from the weight of your own arguements.
YOU are the one who needs to "get over it".