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Originally Posted by Giggleton
If ebooks are not sold, they cannot be resold.
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That's the whole point. If all you're purchasing is a license to read the material, it's not really yours to do with as you wish. It's like someone selling you a TV -- you own the TV, you don't own the shows you watch on it.
You own the license, you don't own the content. That belongs to the copyright holder. And in most cases, the copyright holder has only given you permission to read the book, not rebroadcast it to the rest of the world.
It's just like watching a Pay-Per-View event on TV. Nobody cares if you invite your friends and family over to watch. But when you record the content, then put it on a torrent site for everyone else to watch, you've broken the system and people get angry. Then the next event costs $250, versus the $30 you first paid. Why? Because the content creator wants to make a living.