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Originally Posted by HarryT
Would you see a difference between lending your reader to a friend, and simply giving your friend a copy of the file so that they could read it on their own reader? I think we'd all agree that the second of these actions is piracy. Is there really a difference between them reading it on your reader and on their own?
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risk for me if I lend a copy instead of a device. I'm aware they could copy the content in either case without my knowledge and I would still be liable for having distributed it. With a file they could innocently leave the copy on their device/computer and someone else could distribute it.
Calling it piracy for me to lend my device is extreme IMO. In only a small percentage of cases will it result in unauthorized copying. The device would almost always come back to me without any content being copied.
If I told a friend of mine about a wonderful book I was reading, they would almost always get the book themselves if they wanted to read it.