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Old 12-29-2009, 01:53 PM   #285
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
I'm sure the publishers are well aware of the significance of secondhand books, but they view them as competing with their revenue and want to eliminate them.
If not for those pesky laws...

(There's so much whining about this in games as well. It's fricking unreal. Legal rights, people!)

There's nothing "inherently different", or rather nothing inherently limiting. The medium is not the message (and never was), and indeed the only significance is the legal land-grabs being made because of the medium. You can do new things in a digital medium, certainly, but many of those are going to be locked out until this all gets sorted some years down the line, and after the "people go to the darknet" stage.

Oh, and new and not entirely unrelated sig.

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