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Originally Posted by Catlady
You're conflating the object (the physical book or the actual digital file) and the content (the unique expression that is protected by copyright).
I pay for the object, I should be able to do what I want with it.
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_I_ am not confusing them, I am strenuously pointing out the distinction.
You can sell your DRMed digital file to your friend....they can't do anything with the contents, but if they have some need to buy the encrypted bits, more power to them. You can delete the file, degauss it from your disk, whatever. But once you start providing access to the CONTENT...that's where it seems obvious that there can legitimately be different rights and restrictions associated with those easily copied and transmitted bits than with a physical object of any kind.
Want different or more rights? Great! But the comparison to physical goods, and the furor over the term "buy" as if it had some guaranteed import any time it is ever applied to anything ....what term did the noob above misapply to me: "apples to chainsaws." Or, more on the nose, "abstract digital data to chainsaws."
ApK