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Originally Posted by HarryT
Totally agree. But equally anyone who thinks that they can regard an ebook as the exact equivalent of a printed book - particularly when it comes to "sharing" it - is equally fooling themselves. It's a different product, and comes with its own different set of rights.
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No, they're not fooling themselves. Expecting readers to recognize/honor a distinction that strips them of the right to do things they've ALWAYS done with books simply because of esoteric semantics (regardless of how legally relevant those semantics may appear to be) and a medium-shift is where the foolishness lies. That's an example of a failure waiting to happen.
Most readers simply
don't care if the medium shift has quietly changed what they're allowed to do with the things they unequivocally still consider "books." They. Don't. Care. The laws will change, or readers will start clogging the courts/jails (or publishers/rights-holders will go broke trying to put them there).