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Originally Posted by no.guru
In the US there are countless laws on the books that can be enforced to charge anyone with a crime for practically any behavior. There's the law as written, and the law as practiced.
I know nothing about Sweden, but I suspect the legal situation is similar there. If your response is that there are no old laws on the books that everyone ignores - including the authorities - all I can say is uh huh.
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You're absolutely right, every country has laws that are obsolete, nobody enforces them. That is however not the question here. I'm trying to make the point that eBooks should not be treated any other way then pBooks in the legal sense as well as the practical. I'm fairly sure that everybody here on MR would not consider lending their eReader to someone, again no copies being made, as perfectly kosher. The problem is not the individual, the problem is that the law is not keeping up with the times. Hence, people might be sentenced, maybe even severely so, for something they have always been able to do, but no longer are allowed because we have had a paradigm shift in medium.