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Originally Posted by Nathanael
So imagine if Amazon allowed you to gift an ebook. Since the gift recipient did not enter into any legal agreement, he would presumably be legally free to do whatever he wants with the thing -- torrent it, send out copies to all his friends, whatever. Suddenly there's this legally unencumbered copy of someone's IP floating around the digital ether, with no way for the content owners to stuff the genie back in the bottle. Allowing people to send ebooks as gifts would create a huge loophole in the wall of legal protection content producers are trying to build around the content they own.
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No, the recipient wouldn't be allowed to do that because of the copyright law. No legal agreement is necessary for that.