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Originally Posted by HarryT
I really can't understand your argument. Don't you accept that there's a fundamental difference between giving something away, and giving it away while retaining a copy of it yourself? In the first case, you're simply transferring ownership to somebody else; in the second, you're illegally duplicating it. There's a significant difference between the two activities.
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Well, what is the relevant difference here? Suppose I spend 10 hours reading a book. Suppose I usually spend 50 hours over an extended time period listening to a CD (if that extended time period is death than the copy is thrown away automatically when the time period is over). What does it matter ethically that I timeshift the timepoint were I can get rid of the CD by making a copy?
Why did you mention "illegally duplicating it"? It is not illegal to duplicate a CD. And also we are talking about what is ethically OK. Not what happens to be illegal.
Also, if you cannot give away things you have made a copy of do we then have to destroy the item? Do you have to burn a book to make sure it does not end up with somebody else?