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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1559987" data-attributes="member: 2013">I see the nature of the situation as being different... when I purchase a book, I am not only purchasing paper and ink... copyright laws say that I am also purchasing the right to the information contained therein.  There is no such "two-part purchase" involved in cars or houses.  I am purchasing the physical materials in those cases.The copyright holder gets a "durable good" that cannot wear out and lasts for life + 70 years - it's called copyright.  Is it wrong for me to expect that my access to the durable good that is "the work" be made to less exacting specifications?How does one abuse the content of a book or CD (not the book or CD itself)?I see copyright, in its simplest form, as simply "I pay (or barter or whatever) the copyright holder for the right to access the information to which they hold the copyright."  That's what copyright boils down to, right?  I pay the copyright holder and they show me the stuff in whatever medium.As I have said before, IMO, there are two things that you purchase when you purchase a book, CD, etc.  You purchase (a) the physical medium that carries the information and (b) a license for you to access the information itself.  The copyright holder does not "own" (a) in any interpretation of ownership of which I am aware (the RIAA does not claim ownership of the physical piece of plastic that is your CD, just ownership of access to the song - the information - carried on it).  So long as I am the one paying for another physical medium (e.g., a new hard drive, a blank CD, etc) to store the information in, I feel it is within my rights to move - or copy - that information itself, provided I am the only one using that information.  This of course assumes that I am the one accessing the information on the burned CD or hard drive... so (b) is still satisfied (i.e., I bought a license for me to access the information; I am still the one accessing it; the license has not been broken).  I am the one who paid for the physical medium, so (a) is satisfied.--The Sigil</blockquote>

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