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Originally Posted by TGS
So, if the producers of ebooks want me to stop thinking of their products as books they should start being honest about what they are selling me - a license to use an electronic file - and not just in the "fine print" but in the very presentation of their product.
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EU law is quite clear on this - if it looks like a sale, smells like a sale and is presented as a sale? It's a sale, and exhaustion doctrine applies.
Ms Fancher - You have treated user's rights in law as a joke. This, I'm afraid, speaks volumes to me. In the long run, that attitude can only help spark support for the private copying exception I see looming on the horizon (you may wish to check the success of the PirateParties in the EU, it's far from negligible, politically...and they're just getting started) and which I believe only an attitude of respecting users rights can fight off.
In the end, there has to be a reasonable alternative between the private copy exception and the "you'll pay repeatedly and like it" attitude of big media, and mocking user's rights is most decidedly on the side of big media, given their current legal attacks on said rights.