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Old 11-05-2012, 04:38 AM   #225
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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn View Post
In your example, I'm not sure laws will be very helpful if Amazon defaults and their servers are no longer maintained.
You are right. Actually, what I would like to see are laws that protect consumers before they buy, by forcing sellers of digital goods to state clearly what their products are.
Maybe most people will be comfortable with buying licenses, and so will continue ignoring the issue. But they will choose to ignore it, not be fooled into doing that by intentional misuse of commonplace words ("book", "song", ...).

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Lawmakers are always behind the technological curve, in this case as in so many others.
I perfectly agree with this as well. I half think that the actual issue is that there is not (for what I know) a legally accepted definition of what an "ebook" is, so every company is allowed to call "ebook" whatever they want.
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