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Originally Posted by ApK
pBooks and eBooks are different things. Why would you expect them to be exactly the same in those respects? Can you sell or give away a fireworks exhibit after watching it?
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Everyone can come up with analogies that either do or do not show whether they should be the same or not. Which makes the analogies a little pointless imo.
What it comes down to is, ebooks are a product, albeit a digital one. Either you think a product should have the same rights when it's delivered digitally as when it's delivered burnt on a physical disk, or you don't. Both are valid opinions but only one should be selected. At the moment content providers are treating digital goods as both the same as physical items for some laws and not the same for other laws (depending on how it best benefits them and sod the consumer)
Currently the courts (in the EU at least) are starting to agree that rights should be the same for products distributed digitally as they are physically and imho that's the correct decision (but as mentioned, not the only valid one).