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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
You DO NOT own ebooks, drm'ed or not; the law is very clear on that; any content for which the primary mode of consumption is digital, is licensed not owned, so you cannot resell it; that was the argument music studios made in court when they asked for an injunction against used cd's sale.
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Correct. So eBookstores need to stop misleading customers by telling you that you are "buying an eBook" and publishers need to start pricing eBooks accordingly.
No one rents a movie, for example, for the same price as the movie costs in the store. Yet eBook sellers rent eBooks for more than their paper versions.
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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
So you buy music from iTunes drm'ed or not you cannot resell it;
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Which, to me, means that I didn't buy the music. So I won't pay retail price for the rental of a song.
But this opens another problem: content owners can now control what content you use, when you can use it and how you can use it.
Today they can't make a rule that says "you can read this book only in the bedroom" (mostly because they can't enforce it). But with DRM and laws preventing people from breaking it, they can start to enforce rules like that.
When you add that to the exorbitantly long copyright period, it doesn't bode well for culture.