Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?

[Ravenshire]

No, the analogy would be that somebody who bought the physical book should also get a license to the kindle/ebook version. That license would be inseparable from the physical book.

Or, once you purchase a digital edition of a book, the ability to read it on any device, without having to download an application, regardless of who manufactured the device. The fracturing of licensing ebooks only to the devices sold by the same parent company (Barnes and Noble/Nook, Amazon/Kindle, etc...) and the limits on loaning/passing on the books will do more to discourage reading than it will to protect intellectual property rights, especially when you consider the price of the ebook compared to it's production costs.

I love my e-reader, but it pisses me off to no end that I cannot give a book I didn't like to a friend/relative who might as I can with perfect legal right in print format.