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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Does the same not apply to physical books? Legality is the only issue in that regard. I'm ALLOWED to deprive the publisher of a customer for their physical product. But not allowed to deprive them of a potential customer for their digital product
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You took the phrase out of its context.
The point was that you only deprive the issuer from a potential customer if both of you have copies (digital copies do not differ one from the other, unless the copy mechanism changes one of them - like the SCMS mechanism for DAT, CDR and MD works). If lending is time limited, and the borrower doesn't intend to keep for himself a copy for future readings, this is no different from a regular, physical lend/borrow.
Since this has to do with honesty (being hard to be controlled, it will be in the future), and since there are money involved, the Roman law principle of "Honest until caught" is reversed, so the studios assume beforehand that all customers are thieves and implement such methods of protecting their masterpieces. That they also jumped over the ethical line is evident, but the law is bent and, well... change the law... Push the button, Max!
Harry was faster
