I’m opening a bookshop that sells physical books. I have a machine that scans physical books and converts them into digital books. If a customer buys a physical book but wants to get a digital version for free, he can give me his physical book, which I store in my shop, and I can give him the digital version, but if the customer wants to get the physical version of his book, I have to take back his digital version. The only transaction the customer has to make is to buy the physical book, whereas nowadays, physical books are sold separately from their digital versions. Does my bookshop comply with the law?

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    but if the customer wants to get the physical version of his book, I have to take back his digital version.

    I mean, how can they “give back” a digital file?

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Yeah, that’s what’s going to get you.

        Maybe if you loaned/rented them, but not many would go thru that hassle.

        And you’d need your own locked down ecosystem they can’t crack.

        On top of all that, I’m pretty sure even libraries got sued over doing this.

        I remeber someone once tried to stream physical blu rays online to people for a small fee. And that didn’t work out legally either.