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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it isn't. If you go on "lending" books (ie illegally copying them - it's not "lending" at all), at some point it's absolutely inevitable that you will give someone a book that they would otherwise have bought.
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How does lending equate to illegally copying?? I haven't copied anything. Let's say I read a book and then give my copy to someone else to read, electronic or otherwise. Whether or not they return it to me is moot. It's not a 2nd copy of the book, it's the one I bought. If I've read it, I delete it from my ereader.
Secondly, you're again making a huge assumption and foretelling the future by stating that it's inevitable that someone would have bought the book I loaned or gave them. Granted, it may be statistically significant a chance, but it's hardly inevitable and we're back to Minority Report territory again. You can't arrest someone for walking down the street because they may decide to go burgle someone's house. The same way you can't call me on lending or giving a book to someone just in case they may have bought a copy at some point in their life.
Look, I'm picking holes in your argument because it's so deeply flawed. You can't have your cake and eat it.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The "it's good publicity for the author" argument is fundamentally flawed. If the author wants to give away free copies of their work, that is their decision to take. You do not have the right to take that decision on their behalf.
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So, the law is that I'm expected to hoard or delete everything I buy because it's illegal to give it away when I'm done? Seriously?
The argument that it hurts sales is also fundamentally flawed and I'm amazed this is the point you seem so reluctant to acknowledge. It doesn't
necessarily hurt sales in every case. It
may hurt some authors, it
may help others. There is no single, definitive answer and the studies quoted elsewhere in this thread support that.