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Originally Posted by teh603
The analogy still works, because the argument is still the same; the guy who sold the use tool is "stealing" a sale from the company that makes them. That's the argument against ebook piracy, isn't it? That people who download them don't buy them?
What about the example of the parent who's unable to share their ebook with their child because of copyright infringement concerns? Or if the law were to somehow evolve into a situation where letting someone borrow a computer or laptop with software or ebooks installed would become a crime? Its only one bad court decision away.
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Lost sales are just one part. But downloading is just as bad if no sale is lost because the pirate never would have bought a copy anyway. How can that be a viable excuse for taking something you have no right to?
As far as the issue regarding sharing within the family is concerned there are several possibilities:
1.)You can share an account with that person and that person can then read the book on another registered device.
2.)You can hand your reading device to that person, or swap devices.
3.)You can remove the DRM (the word on the legality of this is, of course, still out, but few would object if the file is not being distributed outside the immediate family.)