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I'm a bit interested in property as well. I see property evolved from non-existence, everything was everyone's, to the idea that land could be owned, the produce of that land could be sold etc.. to today where the products of mind, ideas can be owned and sold. I see property rights on a pendulum that has swung to one extreme and will now begin to swing back to the other side.
As far as transferring ebooks goes, if we think of our ereading devices as single book devices, which we can do if we only load one book/idea onto it we can surely trade/sell/give away these ebooks to whoever we please. After trading, the original purchaser would no longer have their copy but they could always ask for their copy back from whoever they gave it to ad infinitum.
I do think it is safe to say that without the transfer of knowledge gained from the written word/moveable type/ebooks, globalization/development would not have occurred. Therefore, in order to more rapidly speed ourselves along into the new era, and push the property rights pendulum back, it would behoove us to share as much knowledge as we can.
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