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Originally Posted by ApK
Not at all. We are neither missing anything nor is it senseless or illogical. We quite simply acknowledge the reality of our system of economic need and incentive. It's the best system anyone has come up with so far, though you are free to try to make a better one.
In our system scarcity is merely one factor we use to determine value, not the only one. In fact we've made laws and treaties specifically to help establish and protect the value of intangibles like intellectual property. Calling the transfer of a license 'selling a used eBook' makes perfect sense, both as a convenient analog to used pbook sales, as as a literal reference to selling your licensed rights after you have used them.
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What makes you think I'm not aware of this? The fact is a sales model created for limited goods makes zero sense for something that is theoretically unlimited.