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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
That's the case I was thinking of. I'm not sure any sane person can say, "this woman did ~$2million in damages to the RIAA."
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I could make quite a few comments about problems with that case, but I'm not sure this is really the right place for that. I do agree with you though that the situation of an individual reselling a single eBook is not what current US copyright laws/penalties were intended for.
In my view, selling/lending an eBook should be no different in the eyes of the law than doing the same thing with a pBook. As far as copyright is concerned they are the same thing. The method you would use to sell an eBook may be different than for a pBook, but that can be worked out. The main concern is that once the transfer has occurred the buyer has rights to the content and the seller does not. The specific details of how to accomplish that are unimportant, as long as it is accomplished.