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Originally Posted by rwe
when i buy a paper book, i can give it to a friend or to anyone i like to give it too, without a restriction.
in my experience books are a great gift and very much appreciated. 
does the same apply to an ebook that i have legally bought, can i give this away without restrictions as well ?
is there a difference between europe and the us?
i hope someone can explain this to me. |
Are you talking about giving the book to someone else and deleting all your copies, or giving them a copy and keeping yours? The second case would clearly be unauthorized reproduction and distribution (piracy).The first, as people have already mentioned, is a bit more complicated.
I don't give away ebooks from which DRM has been removed, even without keeping copies, since there is no way to control what will be done with them, and I'd have some responsibility if they were to get into the wild.
You might want to read some of the many exhaustive previous discussions of this topic. But be aware that they sometimes become acrimonious.
