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Why is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You cannot endlessly duplicate digital data without some loss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This assumes a conversion on each copy. That's not how digital copying works. We CAN share the same file indefinitely by copying the data without loss indefinitely. It's when you transcode/reencode the data that you introduce loss.