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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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I think we as a whole are too different and not smart enough to come to a concensus on where exactly the line should be drawn. That's why we inventing an ambiguous word of "fair use".
Your "fair use" is clearly different from others'. You have your own set of value. Others have theirs. And I don't think any particular definition of "fair use" is absolutely correct. This concept is too subjective to be defined to everybody's satisfaction.