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Originally Posted by HarryT
Copyright is not involved when you borrow a book from a friend because you're not creating an additional copy of it. In most western countries libraries pay an author every time a book is borrowed from a library - it's called the "public lending right" (PLR).
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All of my life a bought used paperback books. So the authors and others does not get a penny. Create a additional copy or not is not the point. If a borrow a book from a friend i'm " taking someone's livelyhood away" as much as i use a piracy copy.
And piracy is as funny as fighting against piracy which is always a fight against privacy.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I loan out my extra Kindle. How kosher is that?
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You keeping some from buying his own version, thats "taking someone's livelyhood away" as much as lending a paperback book or downloading a piracy copy.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
You may think it's funny, but from the point of view of the content creator it sure as hell isn't.
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Sure as heaven and hell there is no evidence that piracy is taking someone's liviliehood away. O'reilly made a study, thats found out that as more piracy as more ebooks als legally sold.