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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, because you're not making an additional copy of the book. That's what the word "copyright" means - it gives you the right to determine who can copy the book.
==That can't possibly be right, because copyright laws were made to prevent unlawful use of content. ==
When you give someone a copy of an eBook, you are creating additional copies which did not previously exist. Hence copyright law does come use into play.
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The situation seems to be at least a little bit more complicated.
If I take something from someone, I have that thing and someone else is missing it.
In the case of digital copies the situation is completey different.
You could make the case that you lose actually something, namely income.
But that happens only, if the user would have paid you in the first place.
Demand at the price of $ 0 is certainly higher than at a higher price.
So I think it would be pretty difficult to proof empirically the amount - if any -loss you might have suffered from "stolen" digital copies.