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Originally Posted by Fbone
And yet even a small company like Smashwords (13 employees) states such in their TOS. I confirmed it with them in writing. If another family member wants to read, they must purchase their own copy or borrow your device. This is in exchange for DRM-free and reasonable pricing on their offerings.
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nothing against smashwords but we live in the real world here.
don't watch a dvd with a friend, they're stealing it and should buy their own copy. its not licensed for public broadcast. don't cook them a meal that used a recipe you got in a cookbook either, thats stealing the work of the author and the right thing to do is tell them to buy the book and cook it themselves.
"hey man, this metallica cd is awesome!"
"cool. take off your headphones and put it on the stereo so we can both listen."
"sorry dude, thats stealing. this cd is licensed for my use only so you'll have to buy your own or wait until i'm done to listen."
*gets punched*
how far are we willing to go with this? i may come off like a flippant ass but i'm merely trying to follow the line of thought out to its logical conclusion.
theres terms of service and then theres the real world. i dare say 99.99% of folks live in the real world and think that buying a 2nd copy of an easily copyable medium for the person sitting next to them on the couch is idiotic.