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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You bought it, it should be yours to do with in perpetuity as you please.

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[+] astral_avocado@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

People can buy multiple copies if so they wish to. Most digital sellers are perfectly happy to charge you multiple times for things you technically already own. Artificial scarcity by way of limiting a digital good is unethical.

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[+] astral_avocado@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago

If I buy an e-book I should be able to read it on any device I want. If I purchase software I should be able to install it and use it on as many devices I own that I want.

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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You can't buy a book, print off a ton of copies, and then sell those copies. You can do whatever you want with your book, lend out, give it away, but you're not allowed to profit off it.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Sure you are. You're allowed to sell it to a book store, and if it's somehow more valuable than what you paid when you bought it, you profit.

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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You can't make copies and then sell those copies to the book store

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Legally I cannot, but physically the book does not come with a device that prevents me from doing so.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

What about the rights of the creator and fair compensation

That's why you get paid up front for your work.

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[–] query@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

We should worry more about what corporations are doing with people's work, than what individuals are doing with what they've paid for.

Or simply, if someone's profiting off of someone else's work, then worry about the rules.

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[+] astral_avocado@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] query@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

Copyright only exists to serve society, to promote the creation of content. It's not about restricting anything, other than as far as it helps more people create, more creation happen. Corporations stomping on individuals does not promote creation.