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this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is "losing a sale" and not getting the money, right?

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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Iirc there was an online ebook market in the Netherlands where you could resell your ebooks. This was deemed illegal because there is no way to guarantee the seller has deleted his own copy after it was sold.