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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
Not sure who posted that, but calling for boycotts and such is just whining in my opinion.
We can quibble about the terms - and the legal terms for that matter - but for me "sell" means you can "resell". If there is one quality about "owning" is being able to dispose your property as you wish under some minimal general constraints. The other is being able to enjoy your property at will, again under some minimal general constraints.
Ebooks fail on count 1, drm-ebooks on count 1 and 2.
A physical book is a container for a licensed work, but it's yours since you can resell it, you can read it at your pleasure. An ebook is just the licensed work, so it's not truly yours....If it's drm-ed, you cannot even read it at your pleasure, but only on licensed devices - unless you convert and then we go again in the grau area of the DCMA, fair use and all that...
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No it is not. You have fallen for a myth perpetrated by Big Content.
A copyright is not ownership of the content. It is a government granted monopoly over the reproduction and distribution of that content. There is a huge difference.
In the absence of the gov't granted monopoly, I can do whatever I want with the book.
And yes, you can resell an ebook. There is no real market for them yet, but you can still legally do it.