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And the other kind of piracy we must prevent is when you lend the original to a friend. It must be stopped!
That actually isn't piracy or illegal. Under the First Sale doctrine, when you've purchased an item, you now have purchased the rights of distribution for that one item which means you can freely lend a cd, a book, a piece of art. You can tear it up and create something else with it. What you aren't allowed to do is reproduce it - because you don't have the right of reproduction (copyright is a bundle of rights one of which is distrubtion, another which is reproduction, etc).
This is why it is argued that you never really own an ebook or a digital item. You are merely leasing it and subject to the terms of your contract, you are allowed use for a certain time, you are not allowed to resell or distribute.
This is contrary to the notion of the first sale doctrine but until and unless the courts decide that buying a digital item confers the same rights as buying a physical item, the ownership of the digital item remains with the publisher.
But, in the sense of physical items, that is not piracy.
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