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Originally Posted by flandroid
The lending restrictions make sense completely from Amazon's point of view, and if it was my company I'd do the same thing. Their Kindle bread and butter is the books, and if people could lend them without restrictions they would lose a huge amount of revenue. Ebook piracy is already rampant, there's no need to exacerbate it by making it easy for anyone to start 'lending clubs.'
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Here's the thing - and it's something that took the music industry a long time to wrap their head around, and ironically Amazon was one of the ones that helped them do so when Amazon MP3 becomes the first legit online music store selling non-DRM'd music from the major US labels. Pirates are going to pirate outright. They're not going to abuse a lending feature like this; they're going to just download a copy of the book illegally, because it's easier for them to do so. Putting limitations on features like this hinders customers, not pirates. (Yes, okay, technically it's a limitation on a feature which we used to not have, but you get the idea.)