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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
My position has nothing to do with the agreement, I have never read the silly thing. I don't have to read it to know that buying a book, stripping the DRM, and then handing it out to friends and family in that form is piracy.
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When the agreement is paraded here with the warning that ebooks are for personal use only, I just thought I should point out that it is not always the case.
There's a very slippery slope here. DRM removal is encouraged (as "back ups"), but sharing a book with a relative/friend is not. As you mentioned, Amazon allows sharing accounts in order to share ebooks. Some publishers allow its books to be loaned. Ebooks are available at libraries. So obviously sharing of ebooks which are only purchased once is accepted practice.
Personally, no one gets access to my Amazon account. As far as I'm concerned, the author gets paid when I buy the book and it's my business how I decide to share with relatives/friends.
I am not downloading illegal copies of ebooks. I am purchasing them. If you equate my method of sharing with relatives/friends with piracy, so be it.