ApK, you were claiming that ebooks and paper books are different, and they should have different rules. My point was that technology has rendered them identical. Ten years ago it was expensive and difficult to distribute copies of a paper book, but that is no longer the case. Digitizing books is easy for any hobbyist and there are companies that will do it for you for a buck. Locking up ebooks is locking the barn after the horses have left, or the pixels in this case.
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Originally Posted by ApK
As has been pointed out before, ebooks and pbooks are different things, with different properties, and so it's not surpising that we'd have different rules for them.
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