What the DRM can technically allow, and what your licence to the books allows may be different. Fictionwise does not allow you to share DRMed books with friends, even though you can do it technically by entering their PID into your account.
http://www.fictionwise.com/help/eBook_FAQ.htm
Q: Am I allowed to email an eBook to a friend?
A: Sorry, that is not allowed by law. These stories are copyrighted. If you email a file to a friend, you are making a copy of it. You would be committing a crime. The file is licensed to you and you alone. It's not like a physical book that you can loan to a friend. When you purchase and download an eBook from Fictionwise.com, you alone are authorized to read it. You can download it onto multiple devices, for example a Palm and also your home PC. That's allowed by your personal license. But you cannot send copies to any other person. Besides being illegal, making an unauthorized copy of a work deprives the author of their fair royalty, and makes it harder for us to acquire more content in the future. If we catch a violator, we will prosecute him or her to the fullest extent of the law, which can include heavy fines and even imprisonment. So please don't do it. We charge reasonable prices, don't steal from us and our authors.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Most DRM schemes allow limited "sharing" of books. For example, I have a friend who also has a CyBook and there are several DRM-protected Mobi books that I've quite legitimately shared with her by encoding the book with her Gen3's ID, and she's done the same for me.
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