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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu

He's right.

This is not what the law said, although I believe you're of a good faith.
By giving someone else a book, you deprive the publishers from selling his copy to that person (he is a potential customer, since he wanted to read that book), and consequently you infringed her ancillary right of distribution.

Under certain jurisdictions, it is possible (legally) to sell your copy to a third party, provided you destroyed all the copies you have. By "sell" can be understand also give away, lend, whatever action that keeps the number of owners to 1.00000 .

I appear to have been under the delusion that we were talking about right and wrong, not the entirely separate point of legality. It seemed a fair assumption at the time, especially since not even he gives a single darn about the actual law.

Thank you for correcting me of this misapprehension.

At least the plurality of torrents with movies, CDs, and recently even PDFs and eBooks makes your assertion rather weak, so to say.

Perhaps I should not have expected people to figure out from context that I was strictly referring to the subset of people that are violating HarryT's proclamations. I apologize for not being clearer.

Do not confound the options you have with the law requirements.
I assume you may get once in a while a slap from your wife, or vice-versa, an action that repeated with a different person in public may get you or the other one into police custody on the spot .

Thanks for the warning, but you see, I haven't actually done any such thing.
Amazon specifically gives me all those rights, hence my mentioning them in the first place.