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Originally Posted by rcdc
It would be a lot easier and no less ethical to stip the drm & lend the mobi to your friend. You can even email it to their kindle.
If you care about your ebook collection you should strip the drm anyway.
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First, let me be clear. I strip the DRM from every book that I get. Even when I download directly from Amazon, at the earliest opportunity I liberate the book and reload it back onto the Kindle. So I have no personal issues with DRM removal whatsoever.
However, that being said, I
do have issues with removing DRM and then giving the book to someone.
Now you have committed theft, pure and simple. This is not the same as registering their Kindle and downloading the book to it. I think that is theft as well, but it is, at least, controlled to only those you'd clearly be willing to give your account to.
If you use the official way to lend a book to someone, you lose access to it while they have it. Just as with a physical book. If you give them a DRM-stripped book, there are no limits. You still have the book, they can keep it forever, and they can give it to anyone else without restriction. To me, that's crossed the line and you're stealing from the author, pure and simple.
As anyone who reads these forums knows, I don't like DRM and do everything I can to circumvent it and encourage others to do so as well. Not as a way to steal, but as a way to liberate books from silly format restrictions and as a way to protect your use of the product you bought.