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Ridiculous argument. You didn’t buy a physical book, you bought the paper, but the words are owned and licensed by the publisher. You will need their permissi
by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Ridiculous argument.
You didn’t buy a physical book, you bought the paper, but the words are owned and licensed by the publisher.
You will need their permission to read it under an approved light, to sell it again, and even it lend it.
Wrapping the bs in a thin veneer or “software” doesn’t magically make it okay.
- otterley 1y ago> You didn’t buy a physical book, you bought the paper, but the words are owned and licensed by the publisher. Correct. > You will need their permission to read it under an approved light, to sell it again, and even it lend it. No. The physical media is transferable and the implied license carries with it. You just can’t make a copy and then retain it if you give the original copy away.
- johnnienaked 1y agoWhat you are allowed to do is governed by whatever laws are written.
- otterley 1y agoThis sounds like agreement. Otherwise I’m not sure what the meaning of this reply is.
- johnnienaked 1y agoIt means whatever you want it to mean
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- lelandbatey 1y agoAh yes, copyright, where in its furthest future form says "though shall not remeber or recall anything anyone owns unless you pay for it again". I cant wait to pay Disney to remember movies from my childhood once we have a neuralink.
- _aavaa_ 1y agoIncorrect. You own that entire physical copy, not a license to it.
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- ipaddr 1y agoYou do not need permission to read a book in your hands, lend it to a friend or sell it at your local bookstore. You are overly restricting yourself.
- MereInterest 1y agoYou are correct that no such permission is required to use, lend, or resell a book. It would be unethical for a seller to impose a requirement for such permission. By the poster’s analogy, it is similarly unethical to impose a requirement for permission prior to the owner’s use, lend, or resale of a computer. Since Google sells computers that cannot later be used without Google’s permission, Google is imposing such an unethical requirement.
- GeoAtreides 1y agoah, metaphors, gen z worst and least understood enemy
- const_cast 1y agoYes that's his entire point.
- _aavaa_ 1y agoThat was not always the case. See older books that have legal hocus pocus written on the first page stating that you cannot resell this books without the express written consent of the publisher. Now we have the first sale doctrine for many physical items. It’s not being applied to digital goods since we buy a license to the thing instead of a copy of the thing itself; or so the companies want to argue.
- isaacremuant 1y agoBooks can be made illegal. Stop giving in to authoritianism by licking proverbial boots and using their excuses for them.
- b_e_n_t_o_n 1y agoYou need their permission to copy it. You actually don't own the words.