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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think, though, you have to make a separate between violating your terms of service with Amazon (which, as you rightly say, removing DRM is) and outright piracy - giving someone else a copy of a book that you've bought.
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I agree - but you were the one who brought that agreement into the argument. Piracy/breach of copyright is not necessarily defined accurately by something written on Amazon's page - agreement or not.
I absolutely see what you're saying about copies here and copies there. It's the same reason I just buy more copies of things to give to family members rather than share files with them.
But even I would not have a problem lending my Kindle loaded with a book to my mother (for example). Of course, that's mainly because I know she wouldn't understand how to remove the file from the device if she wanted to and I know damn well she would have no desire to keep a copy of any books I loan her anyway. But I can see that it's problematic for me to do so.
It's yet to be tried of course because I've never loaned my mother any books to read on the Kindle. Up until now I've only loaned her paperbacks, and if I like the book that much that I want her to read it, I'll often buy the paperback just for her. She's getting
Wool - Omnibus Edition for Christmas. Shhhhh! Don't tell her.