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Originally Posted by Harmon
View it from another angle. Suppose someone steals my car. It's dirty & filled with ancient McDonald's wrappers. So he goes to the car detailer & buys the super fantastic detailing job. Two hundred bucks. A minute after the thief pays for the detailing, I show up with the cops, the thief is arrested, and I drive off. In my sparkling detailed car.
Do you think for a minute that I owe the thief $200?
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Well, an electronic file is not a physical property.
But, if the thief have put in a car stereo in the car you have to allow the thief to remove it. You do not own the car stereo. If it is something that cannot be removed the question becomes more complicated but that situation can never happen for an electronic copy of the book. For an electronic copy you should only be able to stop distribution. You should not be able to just take the electronic copy and sell it.