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Originally Posted by Solicitous
Also an interesting argument to add is with a pbook you have the right to sell the book to someone else afterwards. With an ebook you buy a licence to the ebook. Legally AFAIK you have no legal right to lend or sell the ebook to someone else after purchasing.
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Yea, that gets repeated a lot.
At least in the UK, it's bunk. The way the law is enforced on this sort of thing in the UK is that someone has to complain, and follow through in court. Basing a business model on your customers not being able to resell their ebooks is building it on very shaky ground indeed, because sooner or later someone
will do it.
Sparrow - The better term would be "fraud and misreprisentation", true. But it's typically
used to steal money from the person who's had their identity misappropriated.
I object to "theft" because it's not accurate. Unauthorised copying is the right term, and it's important to be accurate...there are times when copying
is authorised, there's fair use...