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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Dennis is partially correct when he says:
"Copyright isn't taking rights away from you, because the rights covered weren't yours in the first place."
He's incorrect about the "Copyright isn't taking rights away from you" part. But he's correct about the "the rights covered weren't yours in the first place."
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You can't have it both ways. If the rights weren't mine to begin with, they
can't be "taken away from me" because I never had them.
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It isn't copyright that's the issue here. Its the fact that when you pay money for a DRMed eBook, you are not "buying" it - you are, in effect, renting it through a license agreement.
Copyright doesn't any bearing on this.
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Er, DRM is a (misguided) effect to
enforce copyright. If we didn't have copyright laws, we wouldn't have DRM, as there wouldn't be a perceived need for it.
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Dennis