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Originally Posted by HarryT
Depends how it's done. If it's done by a legitimate method, such as you and your mother having a Kindle registered to the same Amazon account, or an ePub device registered to the same ADE account, then of course it's OK - that's perfectly legitimate. Where it gets dubious, to my mind, is if you give DRM-stripped copies of an ebook to half a dozen of your friends, because you don't know what they will in turn do with them.
It's not a black and white situation.
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The only other e-reading person i know is my sister. She's my sister and all, i trust her, but I won't give her my adobe accont.
Neither would she give me her amazon password.
And while we have a few books in common, it's to much bother to make list to send to each other.
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Where it gets dubious, to my mind, is if you give DRM-stripped copies of an ebook to half a dozen of your friends
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How many of you book would you have lent if you could ? Most of time, you'll have one or two peaple you know are eventually intersted ? Or would have bought the book otherwise ?