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Originally Posted by Requiem
My main question; where in this law does it state anything about ever owning the material we buy? Technically we have never owned it, only the paper it is printed on. Therefore there is no material included with a digital file so the actual download is completely owned by someone else. I don't think that this is the best solution, but for now, and has been for awhile, the law. The interpretation of the law has been proven with the huge mp3 lawsuits and the rulings on those cases. Those precedents are the ones that matter as precedence seems to create the law in a fluid fashion rather than a true resolution.
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You have to admit though, that with the exchange, there is an implied license that the instance you've exchanged for is yours to use, in a limited fashion. The ownership is in that license for use, not in the content itself. This is a basic component of exchange, and is the root of most (if not all) human interaction.