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Originally Posted by rlauzon
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.
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That's technically true, but I guess we are used to the term buying rather than licensing. I do not have any problem with the no reselling thing for ebooks, my big problem is with drm that prevents me from reading on any device that I want, and is quite useless at its stated purpose (protecting content), while moderately succesful at its unstated purpose (lock into a device, company) especially if like sheep we continue to accept and encourage its use with the mantra, "well they won't do ebooks without drm, so what can we do".
Regarding the control thing, I doubt that society will accept it from the content providers. Already those are some of the most despised companies and groups in the world (I doubt that even the tobacco manufacturers are as despised as RIAA) and ultimately we the consumers are in charge since we simply can refuse to abide by their rules and they cannot do much about it.