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Originally Posted by halfpint
Would you buy 1 Cinema ticket and then expect all your friends to get in for free ? Its the same concept as renting a movie and letting all your freinds watch. and as to your book question depends if you have a right/licence to sell other peoples content !! If not then you are selling content which you have no right to make money on plain and simple you are a pirate selling other peoples content
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There is a difference. If I bought 1 ticket to the theater and expected to get 10 people in to see the show with that one ticket, in theory I could be taking up 9 seats that they could be selling to someone else. With the DVD that isn't the case. There isn't a line of potential paying customers at my door and I am denying them access by giving it to my friends.
So again, please tell me, should I be charging my friends to come over and watch this movie?
Also, where does the rule of license stop? So in your opinion I can't buy a book, read it then sell it. But can I buy a car, use it for a little while then sell it? Can I buy a house live in it for a while then sell it? Can I buy clothes, wear them for a while then sell them? Can I buy a TV, watch it for a while then sell it?
I'm not distributing the book. I am not selling the rights to the book. I am simply selling a single copy that I bought. It really isn't any different than when my local store buys a copy of the book from a distributor and sells it to me. Only there the book is still new and in my case it is used.
Like I said, I see your point of view in that by me selling a used copy of a book or giving it/loaning it to a friend I could potentially be costing the publisher a sale, but if it were truly considered piracy there would be no libraries no used book stores. Amazon would not be selling used books on its site.