Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneFancher
In actual fact, the whole idea is pretty much a non-issue for me personally, though Ben did suggest an interesting scenario. As I said to him, my statement was probably a bit narrow-focused.
|
Sorry, but the statement taking my rights as a joke is, to me, a step too far. The situation with Scalzi and Stross might of made me over-sensitive, I agree, but I /have/ passed on ebooks I didn't like to other people, deleting my copies, and that's
legal here.
(And, of course, it's up to me to make sure I
did delete them. Had to dig out my deep backups...)
djgreedo - No, they were created for items
sold to you. In law, the delivery method is not relevant. The differentiation is between product and service, not physical and digital.
There is no reason whatsoever to "think different" - if you want to strip the rights associated with sale, you can rent it or provide it as a service. You want digital files to have all the limits of non-sales without providing anything in return, which means they have to be
considerably cheaper, or they will not be adopted.
This is, of course, what's happened to music - it had to get a lot cheaper. But every time this comes up, "oh, we can't do that for books". Well, pick - user rights, or get cheaper. A small minority of users playing you false on rights (and bluntly, in even slightly different situations they'd of gone to the darknet anyway) or a global price cut...