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Originally Posted by pwalker8
No contradiction. I'm not buying intellectual property, i.e. an idea. I'm buying a book that is stored digitally rather than printed on paper.
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A book is intellectual property (or, to be more specific, its contents are). Only concrete expressions of ideas, such as books, chemical formulas, industrial processes, logos, etc, are protected by intellectual property laws. There's no protection for ideas in the abstract.