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Originally Posted by elemenoP
I don't know how you can "leave piracy out of it" because this is piracy. Assuming the person who offered to share the book is not the author or publisher, they don't have the right to do this.
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Depending upon how you interpret copyright law, sharing is either legal (assuming you destroy your copy when you pass it on) or everyone on this forum is an unrepentant criminal (because the nature of technology means that we make copies of an ebook simply by reading it).
Overall though I agree, sharing ebooks probably represents piracy in most cases since very few people would be diligent enough to destroy the copy they pass on.