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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
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.
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We're in agreement overall. An argument could also be made for breaking the law as a way of changing it, as well as for the more moderate route of observing it and educating the masses.
Pioneers like Belfaborac - with whom I am in good agreement on this topic - would break the law and pay the penalty, and that's admirable.
For the record, I don't count myself as a pioneer, because I know I would sit in jail knowing I could be home reading pbooks and regretting ever getting into ereaders at all.
