Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: unbook me, General Thoughts ... Date: 8 May 2025 19:02:29 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 1iAL7HZsCdtVoUF+zgcLNg9yW0wvByNePul8ZSQ0yuwFiHp6ZK Cancel-Lock: sha1:3xOIMQpoXMvLsscDPUXQ+Fbc5RA= sha256:J3P7JzPXUHl0ldklWUKnOAUsL6cPoyg07612olo78io= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:231060 On Thu, 8 May 2025 17:14:26 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote: > I think this is absurd, and it is clearly an end run around the well > settled first sale principle that says once you've bought a physical > book, you can do anything with it you want other than make copies. > That's why libraries exist; publishers claim they love libraries but if > the law let them they would put the same restrictions on paper books > that they do on e-books. Kinsella has written about that in 'Against Intellectual Property'. He takes a libertarian stance against IP. rather strange for someone whose day job is patent attorney.