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Originally Posted by HarryT
Lending someone a physical book is a completely different scenario to giving someone a COPY of an eBook. With the physical book, there's only one copy of it, which different people are reading in turn. That's absolutely fine, and is perfectly legal. When you give someone a copy of an eBook, you're creating two copies where previously there was only one: you've broken copyright law, unless you're creating the extra copy with the permission of the copyright holder.
My advice would be "don't do it".
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True. I presumed that since he said "like any other book I purchased" he meant he was confident that typical ebook lending terms (doesnt read it himself while loaned, friend deletes when done) were followed. That was probably a naive assumption on my part, especially if he suspects a chance it could wind up torrented (plus the OK-ness of it is still an ethical call rather than a legal one).