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Old 05-19-2012, 07:22 AM   #22
HarryT
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You don't seem to be able to grasp the fact that there is a distinction between ownership of property and being granted a production monopoly by the state.

Or that one can have either without the other.

I do not have to be granted the right to manufactor and sell televisions to own one.
But you need to define what you mean when you talk about "owning" an eBook. As I said in my previous post, when you buy a paper book, all that you own is the physical medium on which the story is delivered; you don't own the story printed in the book. Take away that physical medium, and what is left to own?
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