Why is it legal to buy and sell used books/discs but illegal to buy and sell used digital files? - eviltoast

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

  • ferret@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    If only google hadn’t decided to shit all over JXL. We could have lossless images with an excellent compression algorithm (at least better than the .zip style deflate png uses) at this very moment.