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Originally Posted by JoeD
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.
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I would agree that
AN EBOOK delivered on a disc should have the same rights as
AN EBOOK delivered over the wire, but I do not a agree that physical ink print of a novel is the same product as a digital representation of that novel. Different properties, different uses, different concerns, different abilities, different product.
What it comes down to for me is that we should have these additional rights over ebooks -- the right lend, resell, format shift, back up, etc.--
not because of some comparison to a pbook, but be cause we think it's important, and good, for our benefit both as consumers, and as a society. For all the same sorts of reasons that we got ourselves right of rescission, lemon laws, fair use doctrine, and micro-USB standardization on cell phones!
Because we, as free people, deserve it! DEMAND IT!
WHO'S WITH ME?!?!?
