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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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Of course it's a 2nd copy. The very fact that there's something to delete tells you that.
And the fact that it still exists in your account means you could download a new copy, or read it online.
"Lending" an ebook to someone is not like lending a paper book because once the paper book leaves your hands you no longer have access to it until it's returned.
That's true regardless of what view one takes about the rights and wrongs of the matter. We really need to start recognising that ebooks are a different kind of thing than paper books and that whether or not we want to allow similar types of behaviour (such as lending) is a separate question (and will necessarily be achieved in a different way).