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Originally Posted by cfrizz
I see nothing wrong in what he did. The people who gave him their copies didn't keep copies for themselves they simply gave him theirs. Just as what would happen with a paper book.
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No, it's not "just the same". With a paper book, no additional copies are being made; with an eBook, they are. It's a very different thing. You can't give someone your eBooks for exactly the same reason that you can't give someone MP3 files that you've bought from iTunes - because it's a violation of copyright law.
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I don't give a rat's a$$ what Amazon and all the publishers try to convince us of doing. If I have bought the book whether paper or ebook, it is mine to do as I wish.
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No, it's yours to do with as the law permits. This has absolutely nothing to do with what Amazon or the publishers say; it's about what the law permits. The law does not permit you to make a copy of a book and give that copy to somebody else.