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Originally Posted by itisbomb
But regarding lending of digital books with or without making a backup copy, if you look at the end result, the two practices are not as different as you think. In the end two persons enjoy the same book and the author does not get extra payment. The end result is exactly the same. But while one practice is regarded as copyright infringement, the other is not. Robert seems to grasp its irony and idiocracy. I think he trys to argue against equating copyright infringement with immorality.
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Accepting, for the sake of discussion, the validity of your argument, that then raises the question of where you draw the line.
If giving your friend a copy of an ebook is OK, is giving a copy to 10,000 of your closest friends on the Internet also OK? If it's not, what makes giving it to one person OK, but 10,000 people not OK? What is the maximum number that would be considered acceptable?