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I think everyone agrees that sharing a book with your friends is fine. The difficulty is that online it's so easy to share a book it could easily travel quite far without ever leaving a "circle of friends". Imagine, for example, if you were to share a book with some of your friends on Facebook, and some of them in turn did the same with their friends, and so forth -- that book could go a long way on the Web. The same is true of a Goodreads forum.
So I guess the point is this. Sharing the book with your friends is fine, I think everyone agrees on that -- but at what point does sharing a book online cease to be "sharing with friends" and become "sharing with the wider public"? And that, of course, is a pretty difficult question.
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