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Originally Posted by ficbot
Steve, I disagree with you that the 'contract' you agree to when you buy is the final word. Things change and advances/difficulties crop up which cannot always be anticipated. Take cigarettes, for example. People bought/used them not knowing what they were really about. Are they now not allowed to sue because of what happened? Of course not. And many of them have gone to court and won. I realize ebooks are not quite the same thing, but the principle of 'you bought it, the end' is still relevant here. The courts have already proven that this is not the last word.
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Although I understand what you are saying, the cigarette example isn't a good one. In that case, the cig manufacturers were purposely adding harmful addictive elements to their products and deliberately misleading the public that they were safe.
In the case of e-books, you know what you are buying, and you are told the stipulations of that sale. No court would overturn that unless the stipulations were intentionally concealed in order to convince you to buy.
Anyway, I don't want to argue the present legalities. I merely state that the laws as they stand should be amended to more accurately reflect the product in question, instead of being taken in whole cloth from another product type which is in fact not the same. The fact that there is so much legal ambiguity is a direct consequence of improperly applying laws from one product onto another inherently different product.