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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If I buy a pBook and after I have read it, I decide a friend would like it and lend it. That is all legal and above board.
If I buy an eBook and after I have read it, I decide a friend would like it, the DRM would stop me from lending/giving it to said friend.
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No. Copyright law would do that.
If you lend a paper book to your friend, there is only one book, and it's being transferred from you to your friend. That's absolutely fine.
If you give them a copy of an eBook, there are now two copies where previously there was only one. You have broken copyright law, unless you have the permission of the copyright holder to make the additional copy.
The two scenarios are completely different.