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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
If a license for a book said that you may read the book while sitting on the couch, but not on your dining room table, that license would be null and void, people would rightfully ignore it. I consider any license which tells me where I can read books that I paid for to be no different than the hypothetical license which restricted you to reading on your couch.
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As a blanket statement, you are wrong. Just because a term sounds silly to you doesn't mean there may not be a good, and enforceable, reason for it. And even if term is found to be unreasonable and unenforceable, that does not automatically mean the whole agreement is invalidated.
And even if the whole agreement were invalidated, your recourse might be to get your money back and give up all rights to the book, not just do whatever you feel like with the book.
The arguments here should be about the specifics, not misapplied generalities or analogies.
ApK