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Originally Posted by HarryT
Still dubious, TM. Let's take it to extremes, and see how it looks: a school buys 50 readers, buys one copy of a book needed for a particular subject, strips the DRM, and loads it onto all 50 readers which it then lends out to all the pupils who are studying the subject. Fair use? I don't think so.
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Let's be fair -- this isn't really about fairness. DRM does absolutely nothing to prevent this, as
the book can just as easily be loaded on(to all 50 ereaders) with the DRM intact.
Whether it is fair or not, it is currently permissible and aboveboard and abides by every restriction the bookstores AND publishers AND authors have placed.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
That lending someone your entire reader does not avoid piracy: it is itself a form of piracy if you lend outside the terms permitted by the bookstore, which is generally intended to be your immediate family.
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Where is that in the terms???
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Originally Posted by HarryT
If the contract that you've entered into with the bookstore (ie their T&Cs) says, for example, that the content is licensed for your personal use only (and that, for example, is what Baen's says), then lending the content - on your reader - to another person probably constitutes a breach of contract.
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So you mean I am also breaking the law if I lend my one and only ereader to my sister with my Amazon library on it, in addition to your case of lending out my 60 ereaders to all the students.
I can only imagine this is news to Amazon, since they now encourage you to sign your Kindle into multiple accounts at once ("Family Library") in order to read your family's ebooks.
You are the first person I have ever heard suggest that a family cannot share an Amazon account...
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I have specifically asked Amazon this, and they're happy for anyone to read your books, so long as they do it on an authorised device.
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Precisely.