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Originally Posted by kennyc
And besides, I can (if so motivated) use a copy machine and make a copy of a paper book I've purchased.
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Of course you can, and that's absolutely fine if that copy is for your own personal use, but you're not suggesting that it would be legal for you to give the photocopy to someone else, are you?
That's the problem with trying to compare this with paper books: if you have a paper book, you're free to pass it around to your friends as much as you want - there's only one book in circulation. It's the fact that multiple copies of the book get created when you do this with eBooks that's the issue.