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No, it's much more down to the fact that, whereas with a pBook, you have to consciously make a copy of it if you wish to have one (eg by scanning it or photocopying it), with an eBook multiple copies automatically exist as a part of the normal mechanism of use, and the typical computer user probably doesn't have the knowledge to eradicate all those copies.
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Where did "the typical computer user" come from allofasudden?
That same user also won't be able to find it again, so what's your point? If you're not pulling him out of your hat for argumentative purposes, this hypothetical person is irrelevant to the discussion. "law breakage" already is a circumscribed
deviant position, so taking it as the "standard case" is rude towards everyone.
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How much would the law actually require you to do in terms of "deleting" your book if you wanted to give it someone else or sell it? Flush your web cache? Physically destroy any backup DVDs you may have made? Use a secure deletion tool to overwrite it on the physical disk?
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Red herring. As long as the law doesn't decide this, I think what applies is what category "books" are sold under. If that category is "(p)books", then those rules apply. If not, then (imo) either no laws apply, or some catchall law applies, with little direct relevance to books.
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I don't know the answer to those questions - do you?
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You seem to be implying that you do, and that the answer is "no", and that the other is 'very much mistaken' in his/her conviction that he/she knows otherwise. Is it really necessary to obfuscate your position by letting everything hang on "perfect knowledge of the law", and by implication forbidding anyone who "doesn't" from speaking on the topic with any sort of voice? (except you, of course, who is[are?]
reminding us of that)
That said, I doubt very many people would be buying books (from companies like Amazon) if they were reminded at every point that they were only leasing a book. As it stands, the button on the amazon store still says "buy", not "lease". As such, they are misleading the customers, in a relevant manner.