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Originally Posted by Lemurion
The thing to remember is that "used digital content" is itself an oxymoron. Whenever you use or transfer digital content you're actually creating a new copy.
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Not necessarily. People have sold Sonys & Kindles with books already on them--"used" digital content without creating an extra copy. And Amazon has told people they're required to empty the contents of a Kindle before they resell it. They claim customers are allowed to sell the device but not allow the new owner to read the previous contents.
There are potentially other possibilities, where the digital "original" resides on a piece of hardware that's sold/given away. Laptop loaded with software & documents; ebook reader full of books; flash drive with all the first downloads.
Most commonly, when people want to sell digital files, they want to make a new copy, but sometimes that's not the case--and currently, ebookstores are prone to saying you don't have the right to sell your laptop with book already on it to a new person.