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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It's okay to share as long as I'm taking a financial risk?)
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In a sense, yes. If you lend your paperback to someone, you risk not getting it back and being out the cost of the book. You can't easily blast paper backs across the Internet to share with a billion of your closest friends. The ease of sending ebooks remove the risk and difficulty barriers that are inherent in sharing physical media, so it's really not surprise that the IP owners impose different barriers for the different format.
But I suspect everyone realizes this already.
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I am not fond of "oh, you know what we really mean!" TOS
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I agree with you there in principle, and would prefer some reform, but the arguments here in practice are teetering on the edge of failing a 'reasonable person' test. The terms of the TOS, in most cases, seem not to be in danger of going over that edge, because "we know what they really mean!"