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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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But you can
only define lending your books to someone as piracy
because of Amazon's TOS. I would think everyone on this forum has lent books to friends, but now, because they're ebooks that's suddenly a crime. It just doesn't wash. At all.
If anything, this discussion show that the current laws and regulations pertaining to ebooks are unworkable and just plain stupid. I've lent and given away books for half a lifetime and I'm not going to stop now just because they're no longer physical items. If that makes me a criminal, then I can live with that very easily. And if the police one day knocks on my door and says "we hear you've been a naughty boy Mr. B, lending books and such, so we're afraid it's the slammer for you. Now go pack whatever you think you might need for the next ten to twenty", then I'll man up and take that too.