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Originally Posted by Mitchll
your false assumption is that you have the right to demand that a particular media format be used. You have the right to buy or not buy, but if I as the producer/publisher want to release my work in a 35mm format, or a pdf format, it is my work and your choice is only to consume or not. That is what property rights are all about.
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Your are right, except where you have a monopoly, or where the purchaser is required to make the purchase.
The latter often applies to text-books. When a particular title or compilation is required by the professor, the students do not have a choice - they are a captive audience. (O.K., they can refuse to take the course, or refuse to go to a particular institution, but ....)