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With the exception of, obviously, making backup copies all over the place, all of the above can be said for what I've done with a hunk of paper known as a book.
With Printed books:
- I've read copies without paying for them, without even registering as a "borrow" from a library. It's legal to sit in a library, without technically "signing" the book out and polishing off a book in a few hours and sticking it back on the shelf- wouldn't even count as a "borrow" if the library has only allowed 26 loans before needing to re-buy.
- borrowed from friends, who then have loaned it to other friends. Sometimes I am about the 6th or 7th person to have had my hands on that exact copy.
- I've bought 2 copies of books before (second hand even) one to read, and one I don't mind loaning out (which, in e-book terms would qualify as a 'backup' - paid a pittance and not even paid the author)
- I've mailed (postal mail) books to people in other countries for the cost of postage, when they said they had a hard time finding it locally.
- one copy of book has been read by up to dozens of people....
-I've read out of date Reader's Digest magazines at the dentist's waiting room.
With a printed book, nothing wrong with that.... for some of the above, with e-books, it's close to piracy. (Again why I prefer to buy paper, but borrow or download sample chapters for E) It's hard to do anything like that with e-books without violating a copyright because with each function e-books copy themselves.
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