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It's just one more attempt for forcibly redistribute money from the 99% (which buys and sells used items) to the 1% (which owns most of the copyrights and patents and never buys anything used).

"stupid, compliant slaves" I'm there.

From what I read, the case is really about textbook companies making it illegal for anyone to buy textbooks overseas (in this caseThailand where the same book is far cheaper) and sell them in America.

It's just like the ban on importing Canadian drugs, even when they are the exact same drugs made in the same factories as the ones we are allowed to buy in the US for much more money. One excuse was that people importing Canadian drugs to the US were funding terrorism.

When corporations want to stop the free market so they can make more money, they call the free market "terrorism".

You can expect that the importation of cheap textbooks from Thailand will probably also be labelled terrorism, because that's what makes the stupid compliant slaves shut up, salute, and pay unlimited amounts to mega-corporations. Works like a charm.

This is just an assault on property rights. If I buy something, I own it. I don't need permission from someone to sell whatever I wish to sell or do as I please.

This is complete nonsense and should be thrown out of court!

When corporations want to stop the free market so they can make more money, they call the free market "terrorism".

Those who most espouse the virtues of free markets least believe in them and do their utmost to prevent the market from acting freely.