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Originally Posted by Iphinome
If your objection to piracy is based on ethics there's no reason at all to object to this kind of transfer of files. One book is payed for, that one book is only ever on one device. It just gets moved around.
If your objection is only that it falls afoul of some rules then I invite you to change alignment. Blind adherence to every arbitrary rule will drive you crazy, there's too damn many of them.
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My objection is that, even if you choose not to read the book again, you still possess it. You can simply re-download it from the bookstore's server. Choosing not to do so still doesn't change the fact that you still possess the book (or access to the book).
The "second-hand economy" really doesn't work for eBooks. The reason that second-hand books are cheap is that they degrade with repeated reading. An eBook does not. You could "hand on" your eBook to 20 people in turn, and every copy is identical to the original.