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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by officemonkey on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @04:03PM (#3271714)
>No ebook license (or any other "virtual" good) will ever have a license that confers 'ownership'.

You've forgotten about the public domain.

Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by brazzy on Thursday November 24, 2011 @07:40AM (#3274133)
Actually, I'd say that the underlying issue is that the very concept of "ownership" simply cannot be made to apply consistently to goods that cost basically nothing to replicate.

All the hubub about IP and DRM and piracy follows from this mismatch.