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Originally Posted by ApK
No, you're claiming the right to dictate or ignore the terms arbitrarily. At least, you're stating it in a way that makes it sounds arbitrary.
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It's not arbitrary at all. Random House defines "arbitrary" as
"subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion: an arbitrary decision." The requirement to have paid for the book is a restriction, and I haven't asserted that people should be able to give copies away.
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I find analogies to be very convenient if they are appropriate. If they are not appropriate, then convenience has nothing to do with it.
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The analogy is quite sound. Again, suppose a license stated that a person could only read the book when sitting on their couch, but not when sitting at their dining room table, You could of course insist that the only choice someone had would be to read the book only on the couch, or to not buy the book. Most people would read the book at their dining room table if they felt like it. If you take the latter position, that implies that at least in some cases, we aren't obligated by license agreements. The question is then whether not which license agreements obligate us, and to what extent we are obligated. What a court might say is a different matter entirely.