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Originally Posted by plib
No. Not until there's been a definitive ruling on whether first sale doctrine applies to ebooks. There's a similar case on mp3's in the works at the moment where the judge refused to give a preventive injunction if I recall correctly.
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Perhaps, but at the same time, I don't think an end to first sale doctrine is actually unreasonable on the part of the publishers (maybe one of their few reasonable demands). After all, this is not Star Trek where it seemed that only one copy of any file could exist at a given time; one file can be duplicated hundreds, if not millions of times in just a few minutes. The only way to transfer a file is in fact to make a copy of said file.
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Bill