Re:because... (Score 3, Interesting)

Please....If I purchase a bunch of paper with ink printed on it, it's still a book that I OWN. The author didn't provide the information provided in the book as a service. I purchased the information in that book the same way I purchased the information contained on my CD. I don't have the right to re-print more books, but I have the right to sell the book the same way I do my software. YOU may think of software as a service, but currently it is not sold as a service. When's the last time you went to the services department in Best Buy to pick up software? Can you feel the content of a book? Just because my brain in crunching the content, it doesn't make it any less of a *tangible* good.