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Originally Posted by leebase
And -- physical items deteriorate. You get exact, pristine, can't tell them from the original copies with digital file.
In essence, one person could buy the book, then sell it infinitely.
Even library books degrade.
Guess what you must do to a digital file to give it some of the properties of a physical object? That's right, you add DRM. But nobody likes that either.
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I have a few books from the early 1900's that are almost pristine and I have some 2000's books that look like they have been through a wringer washer a few times.