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Originally Posted by tompe
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?
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Because 10 people owning a copy of a book simultaneously is not at all the same thing as those same 10 people owning it one after the other. It's not simply "timeshifting"; it's a completely different thing.
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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?
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I think you should destroy your copies, yes. Not the original, but the copies you've made. That's rather implied (to my mind) by the idea of transferring ownership to someone else. Once you've done so, you don't have it any more.