I agree "lost sale" is a red herring in the lending discussion.
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Originally Posted by ApK
If you have permission to use a work in a certain way, and that permission does not include making duplicates and giving them to other people, and you do it anyway then you are infringing on someone's rights.
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I can even agree to that.
The part where we run afoul of each other (or maybe not) is that I don't believe the existing laws have
the right to extend the same protection to things that were never considered when those laws were enacted. Because of that, I will continue to lend in a manner that causes no more (or less) harm to the rights holder than it did with physical books until such time as the law catches up with the times. The practice may have been made illegal by the media-shift, but the harm is imaginary.