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Originally Posted by Sregener
And yet handing them your physical book so they can read it without the permission of the copyright holder is not.
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That's because you're not creating an additional copy of the book when you do that, so copyright law doesn't get involved. When you give someone a copy of an ebook you've created an additional copy of it. There was previously only one copy; now there are two. This is a situation where DRM is beneficial - it can allow legitimate "lending" of ebooks.