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Originally Posted by shalym
Ok...can you point me to where that scenario was ever discussed? The scenario discussed was loading a book onto a spare reader and lending the reader to Aunt Mary. You responded to that specific scenario by saying that it was piracy.
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Unless the "lending" takes place under circumstances permitted by the publisher (eg Amazon have pretty flexible permitted sharing scenarios), I'd say that there's a strong argument to be made that the scenario you describe does constitute copyright infringement. You've given a copy of the book to a person who isn't licensed to read it. The infringement takes place the instant you do that: it doesn't matter how long or short a period of time they retain it for.
I'm sure that not everyone will agree with me (I strongly suspect that you won't), but that's the way it looks to me.