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Old 10-28-2012, 11:31 PM   #5
speakingtohe
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
What I wonder, and would like to get other views on, is will this start changing the shape of piracy from wide availability piracy to narrow focus, friend-to-friend piracy, where person a know person b and wants to share something with them, but not the whole world.
I share books with my 87 year old mother who would not know how to share them with anyone else. Her kindle is registered to my account.

I do not think it is wrong to allow someone else to read your ebook as long as you are 100% sure they cannot/will not share your ebook with someone else. But probably I am ethically wrong on that.

For example if I email a copy of an ebook to a friend, and they in turn email a copy to two friends, who then email a copy to two friends, soon there are a exponential amount of copies of your copy in circulation.

Not intentional piracy per se, but the end result is pretty similiar.

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