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Originally Posted by DianNC
I'm not paying $25 for a disc, however, but rather the content on the disc (the movie).
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No you're not. You're paying for the disk and for a license to watch the content privately. The disk can not be (easily, legally) copied to be watched in more than one place at a time.
There ABSOLUTELY is a difference between physical and digital Copyright law, or else there never would have been a Digital Millennium COPYRIGHT Act to address those difference.
The main (and I think obvious) difference is that physical media is controlled by it's physicality. It's only in one place at a time, so simply saying "you're not allowed to make or distribute copies" is often adequate. The physicality imparted certain limitations that didn't need to be specifically readdressed in copyright law. With digital material, by it's very nature, ANY use --- any download, any transfer -- is inherently a duplication, so it is totally reasonable that the law needs to concern it self with more detailed control of those abilities. Again, I see this as obvious. If you think you should able to resell the LICENSE you have to ebook content, great. I agree. But it has nothing to do with being able to resell a DVD or a paperback or a car. It has to do with us believing that is fair use and value we want, and we want the rules changed to account for it.
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