Thread: Study: As E-Readers Increase, So Does Resistance
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Old 02-07-2012, 06:11 PM   #99
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I really don't think it is. People don't 'buy' a movie on DVD and get all shocked that they can't show it to an audience for money ("Why didn't they tell me I was only LICENSING the movie?!?") or 'buy' a copy of MSOffice and act surprised that they're not allowed to burn copies and sell them on ebay.
People understand what it means to 'buy' copies of IP, they don't need extra words on an Amazon button to tell them what they already know plainly well.
The analogy here would be people who buy the book, strip the DRM, and send it to all their friends and post it on the Internet, which is not at all playing fair with the authors, publishers, and booksellers in my opinion. I wasn't intending in any way in my post to be advocating piracy, which I am firmly against, but simply trying to say that people have a right to protect the books they've bought against the possibility of losing access to their purchase because of the company going out of business, the reader breaking down, the format becoming obsolete, or because they choose to go with another brand of e-reader. As long as people are playing fair with the book providers by not redistributing copyrighted works, they should have a right to do with their purchases as they see fit. And that includes stripping the DRM for their own personal use.

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What people DO need help with is understanding the particular restrictions that come with some forms of IP, and when some of those restrictions are unfair, or are enforced by technological methods (DRM) or legal methods (DMCA) that do more harm than good, they need a way to ban together effect change.

Renaming a 'buy' button to a 'license" button does none of that, and doesn't tell anyone anything they didn't already know.

It is the quintessential red herring in this issue. I'm sure the DRM companies and publishers would much rather us waste time arguing whether to put "buy" "rent" or "license" on the button, rather than us spending time contacting our reps to effect copyright reform and petitioning to have fair use doctrine clarified and expanded.


So, no, I don't think it's a good point at all.
ApK
I wasn't suggesting the button be renamed. I was simply agreeing with CazMar that the Amazon button says, "Buy now with 1-ClickŪ," not "License now with 1-ClickŪ." If they aren't selling the book, it becomes a matter of false advertising.

On the other matter you mentioned, perhaps the time has come for people to ban together.
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