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I think that for me, there is a distinction between the legal issue and the moral one. I don't commit 'moral' piracy but I find the legal distinctions a little silly. For example, I have two people in my life who have ebook readers but prefer for me to get the books for them. In the first case, it is my mother. She has a Kobo reader, which I purchased, which was registered to my Kobo account, and continues to be. When she wants a book, she calls me up, I get it for her, take the Kobo back to my own computer and load it on for her. Yet at the same time, I have a Kobo app on my iPad. So simultaneous with her reading the book, I could read it too. But technically, legally, and morally, I have done nothing wrong. The Kobo is still registered to my account so it's all okay.
Now, contrast this to my boyfriend, with whom I live. He also asks me to get books for him. I usually get my books from Amazon. From a technical, legal standpoint, it would be 'piracy' for me to buy the book from Amazon, strip the DRM and load it onto his Kobo. But the net effect is the same. So why is one 'piracy' and the other not? It's purely semantics. I suppose that if I wanted to be 100% pure about it, I could register his Kobo to my account as well, or I could just take his physical Kobo and borrow it when I want to. But really, what is the practical difference? And is anyone really going to tale me to court because I bought a book at Amazon and shared it with my Kobo-using partner with whom I live? I just don't see a moral difference between the two scenarios I outline above.
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