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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4746151" data-attributes="member: 19675">Well, that does sound like a pain, but I don't buy novels as pdfs, so that isn't much of an issue to me.I have had something similar happen to me, though.  I have a lot of IP that I produced using certain programs.  Some of those programs are now off the market, and even though the companies that created those programs still exist (*coughMicrosoftcoughcough*), they didn't EVER produce translation programs for that older data to be used or accessible in the programs that supplanted the outdated software.In some cases, that IP is locked up forever...unless I find an older machine (I, too, run Mac) with the right programs installed on it.But being angered by that- or basing laws on such ocurrences- is like being ticked off that an 8-track tape of Dark Side of the Moon can't be played in my 2008 Honda Accord.IOW, my answer is either re-create the IP (in my situation) or re-purchase the IP in a friendlier (read: less danger of obsolescence) format.  Books rock.Sure, it would be useful, just like it would be useful for me to photocopy entire books so as not to endanger my originals.  It sure would have helped me- I lost a collectible book to a puppy I owned, a book that was a childhood favorite of mine.  It would have been awesome to have a "use copy" on hand and the original in some safe place, but instead of that, I wound up replacing the book with a non-collectible edition of it.The law says that, despite the utility of duplication, there is a greater utility in protecting the right of IP holders to sell complete copies- even multiple copies- to consumers, rather than let the consumers duplicate things at will.And I'm OK with that.</blockquote>

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