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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
In your example, I'm not sure laws will be very helpful if Amazon defaults and their servers are no longer maintained.
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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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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Lawmakers are always behind the technological curve, in this case as in so many others.
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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.