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If you buy a reserve at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put it on the shelf, provide it to a friend, or sell it at a garage area sale. But is the same thing true for the eBooks or other digital goods you get? Sellers and copyright holders dispute you do not own those buys, you merely certificate them. Which means your eBook supplier can delete the reserve from your device without warning or reason - as Amazon removed Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of amazed readers several years ago. These readers thought they had their copies of 1984 - until, it turned out, they didn't. In The End of Possession, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz explore how notions of ownership have shifted in the digital industry, and make an argument for the advantages of personal property. Obviously, eBooks, cloud storage space, streaming, and other digital goods offer users convenience and overall flexibility. But, as Perzanowski and Schultz warn, consumers should be aware of the trade-offs including individual constraints, permanence, and personal privacy. The protection under the law of private property are obvious, but few people manage to read their person agreements. Perzanowski and Schultz dispute that introducing areas of private property and ownership in to the digital industry would offer both legal and monetary benefits. But more importantly, it would affirm our sense of self-direction and autonomy. If we own our buys, we are free to make whatever lawful use of them we please. Technology do not need to constrain our flexibility; it can also empower us.
