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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (143130)	10/15/2005 10:22:24 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 794162

You're purchasing a usage right to the intellectual property which is delivered on a physical medium. I understand the rights aspect of this. I'm trying to get a handle on the expectation aspect. If you make five copies of the movie on the DVD and they all get destroyed, you may still own the rights but you aren't able to watch the movie. How do you get to watch that movie to which you own the rights? Those rights don't have any value if you can't executed them. When you buy a DVD, you're buying the rights but you're also buying the data. If you lose the data, what happens to your rights? Too bad, you should have made six copies? As with vinyl, where you could record a cassette tape to play in your car or to otherwise make a back-up copy for preservation One difference is that there were natural physical limitations for data on vinyl or cassette. Sooner or later you have to buy another copy if you're to continue enjoying it. With digital, there are no longer physical limitations so the data is eternal so long as you have adequate backup. That changes the value. It's not relevant to the point being discussed, but it is a difference.

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