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Originally Posted by kennyc
It was never legal to make a copy of a book and sell it or give it away. At least not under current copyright law.
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Nobody is saying it should be. But I can certainly take the original book and either lend it or sell it. Both of those are legal.
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There is no law (that I know of) that says you can't sell and ebook. The problem is that it won't work because of the method chosen of protecting authors right BECAUSE OF THE INHERENT DIFFERENCE IN FORMAT.
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No. It won't work because the chosen method was DELIBERATELY DESIGNED TO PREVENT IT. It has nothing to do with the format or an inherent limitation. A DRM system that would allow you to transfer a license to a single person is certainly possible. The most common eBook DRMs do not allow that only because they were specifically designed that way.
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It's right back to your right to swing your fist stops at my face.  Now with your new genetically engineered longer arms you are more restricted in what you can do with them.
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You're completely missing the point. Nobody is saying that my genetically engineered longer arms should allow me to swing my fist through your face, we're saying that we're being prevented from swinging them at all. As long as I swing them in exactly the same way I swung them before (which is already technically possible), why can't I do so?