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Originally Posted by wawasteele
I've sold books at yards sales. I've given away books. I've purchased a lot of used books.
I think we should be able to do the same with ebooks. The problem as I see it, is the ability to sell an ebook and still keep a copy of it. That would be so very wrong. I wish there was a solution for that problem.
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The fact there is no viable solution is why digital content is licensed. And it's not just books. Way back when, software was in fact sold with resale rights but only because it relied on code in proprietary dongles to run. So basically it was locked to hardware, like video game cartridges and dvds.
The two potential solutions are to lock content to hardware or alwsys-on internet authentication and both are worse for the majority of consumers than current practices.
We didn't arrive at this regime just because publishers are evil and greedy but rather because it is the least bad approach given the limits of tech.