Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber

On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:08:44 -0400, WolfFan <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Mar 24, 2024, Dimensional Traveler wrote
>(in article <[email protected]>):
>
>> On 3/24/2024 1:07 AM, Mad Hamish wrote:
>> > On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:43:30 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
>> > <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 3/22/2024 5:14 PM, WolfFan wrote:
>> > > And to put it where Amazon can=92t touch it; they have
>> > > > been known to reclaim ebooks. see
>> > > > =
https://www.pcworld.com/article/519855/amazon_kindle_1984_lawsuit.html
>> > > >
>> > > > I don=92t trust them.
>> > > Ya, that whole incident was just stupid. And of all the titles to
>> > > reclaim THAT had to be first?!
>> >
>> > What were they meant to do when they found that the publisher didn't
>> > have the rights to the book?
>>
>> Stop selling it, same as if it were physical printed copies.
>
>Exactly. Yanking it from custyomers=92 devices was, and is, totally=20
>unacceptable. The fact that they sold something that they shouldn=92t =
have is=20
>a THEM problem, not a CUSTOMER problem.

We are wandering here into the legal wasteland of just what it means
to "own" -- well, anything digital (book, music, video).

=46or example, can such things be /inherited/? Or do they cease to be
legally useable by anyone when the purchaser moves on? I don't know it
this has come up yet, but it will, oh yes, it will.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"