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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sorry, Barry, but buying an ebook does not give you the right to give copies of it to all your friends. That's piracy, plain and simple.
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You've just put a slight twist on what I said. Buying a book and giving all my friends a copy is piracy. We agree on that. I have a lot of friends and neighbors and I come from a fairly large family.
I currently have a single Kindle that I use for loaning books. It doesn't stay loaned out all that much. A number of my friends, neighbors and family members don't read a lot. Others do but not the same things I read. So my loaner Kindle gets loaned now and then.
If my sister gets a Kindle and I'm reading a book and she wants a copy I wouldn't hesitate to give it to her. Currently I loan her my Kindle to read it. Either way works. The result is the same.
Is that still piracy? Sure it is. But it's piracy in it's very mildest form and being a stingy brother or friend or neighbor is a lot worse.
We're weighing two evils here; selfishness and lawbreaking. You argue on the side of selfishnees. I argue on the side of lawbreaking. It's the nature of the world we live in that we have to make choices like that sometimes.
Barry (criminal mastermind)