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Originally Posted by leaston
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.
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That is
not what people generally mean when they talk about "lending" someone an eBook, and I think you know that as well as I do. When someone says "I've lent Aunt Jane such-and-such an ebook", what they actually
mean is that they have made a
copy of the book, and given that copy to Aunt Jane, while retaining a copy of the book for themselves. This - unless it is done using a "sharing" mechanism approved by the copyright holder - is piracy, plain and simple.
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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.
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That is true, but it is not what I actually said. What I said was that if you continue to pirate books, sooner or later one of those pirated books is going to end up in the hands of someone who would have otherwise bought it.
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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?
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Yes, seriously. Go and look at the copyright law of your country: you don't have to take my word for it.