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Originally Posted by taustin
That, however, is not the same thing as making a copy available to someone else, and is generally explicitly covered by the TOS as part of what you are intended to do with it - read it yourself.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Are we really talking about two different things?
I merely said it IS illegal because of the ToS, not that it can't be illegal because otherwise how can you read it.
Regarding making copies, I agree there are many ways to make copies that lawmakers are not aware of.
Although I am unsure how opening a file makes a copy of it (outside of the RAM) -- unless as I said, opening a zipfile, in which case the contents are extracted and saved to TEMP storage, or "~/.cache/". I threw in the transferring-to-ereader part as a bonus.
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I was replying to mandy314's post where the argument was that reselling is not legal because it requires the making of a copy, so I pointed out that copies have to be made for the regular use of the ebook.