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Originally Posted by kennyc
Because they don't equate due to the inherent difference. You can only share a pbook with one person. That is untrue of an ebook as discussed above. It's inherently different, so the inherent rights are different, and yes those rights have to be different in order to "protect" the system which creates the product containing those rights.
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They're not talking about taking away our right to share with millions, they don't want us to be able to share eBooks with ANYBODY. If I can share a pBook with 1 person at a time, why can't I share an eBook with 1 person at a time? If I can exercise my one time right of first sale for a pBook, why can't I sell an eBook once? Technical ways of doing that already exist, but Publishers have taken it upon themselves to decide that we're not allowed to use them.
It's not that they're denying us new capabilities that eBooks allow, it's that they're also trying to take away old ones that we've always had.
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You can't reasonable expect to have the same rights for different products.
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It's not a different product. The product is not the pieces of paper, it's the story. It's not the digital 1s and 0s, it's the same story.