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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sledge" data-source="post: 1557799" data-attributes="member: 9324">Dannyalcatraz I think you are missing the point.  If I buy a car and lose it, I can refind it.  If it gets broken I can fix it.  At the very least after years of usage I can sell it for scrap.  If I lose my second copy of a book I own maybe I can find it.  If it falls apart, then I have been deprived of my "right to enjoy" it as you said.  If that right is something that may last longer than my lifetime, wouldn't a product that falls apart be theft from me?  If I have already purchased a book, and the store expects me to buy a second book because the first will fall apart eventually I think I would feel justifiably ripped off.  I know that most RPG companies I've dealt with do not expect people to buy a new copy of the same book every X years.  That is why they make changes.  If the purchase is only the same as a ticket to a perfomance that never ends why shouldn't I be able to continue enjoying the perfomance I paid for without paying for it again and again.  A live performance has a date printed on the ticket.  Last I checked my gaming books didn't have a "Valid until:..." printed on them.  Which of your RPG books have a limitation date on them?  To use your example of a person with eidetic memory.  IF they had bought a ticket without any limitations for a performance that played continually they could of course go and see it some more.  This principle occurs in smaller forms in real life venues.  When you go to see a convention and get your hand stamped they let you in after leaving.  That is because the "performance" was still going that you paid for.However the pdf as a replacement does not cost the store any overhead.  The store already has my money once.  (Or 5 times in your example)  I find it hard to believe that any store would actually expect someone buying a book six times.  In the end the store would only suffer if a PHYSICAL copy was taken.  However a pdf is not taken.  It is merely copied.Websters defines theft with this note:"Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief."Copyright infringement should not be directly called theft.  Call it Copyright infringement it you want, but don't call it theft.</blockquote>

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