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Originally Posted by Sregener
Thus, it is ownership in the real sense.
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No, it has to do more with posession of a phyisical object, and calling an ebook purchase "ownership" would not magically transfer that property to an intangible object.
You buy a train or plane ticket, but the line can still deny you passage for various reasons, and it has nothing to do with the fact they can't reach into your wallet and actually take the ticket. They can enforce that the passage is not transferable regardless of what first sale doctrine might say about the piece of cardboard in your wallet.
This is what you...and seemingly everyone hung up on "ownership"... are not getting. Calling it "ownership" doesn't NOT magically give you the same rights and properties over an intangible construct as it gives you over a physical object.
And it never will, and it never should because the inherent properties are different.
Vive la difference.
Heck. If the same rules magically did apply, then you would not be able download a second copy, read online or get any other benefit of digital cloud storage. Hey, you lose the copy of a book you 'own' you don't get to walk into a store a grab a free replacement, do you? You want to insist on identical rules without rationale, the you'd have to take it both ways.
It's our actual rights over the ebook we need to be working to adjust.
We mustn't be deluded and distracted into thinking that a meaningless equating of terms between things that can't be directly equated will magically give us those rights.
ApK