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Originally Posted by NatCh
IUsually this is not legal. For a couple of reasons. The physically grounded one is that an e-book isn't a physical thing, if you give or loan someone else a copy of it, you almost certainly retain a copy of it yourself: it's inherent in the way the files themselves are handled.
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I look at it like this...
Sony & Mobipocket allow me to put in multiple PIDs for a given eBook. So I should be allowed to share that eBook with all of the devices that use those PIDs. My wife and mother-in-law's readers are authorized to my account at Sony. And when if I purchase an eBook there, their readers are also allowed to display them. So I see no problem letting them have the eBook if they want to read it. So as long as the DRM and I know the other person reading it won't stript he DRM and give it away, I see no problem lending it. The only difference is this person can keep a copy and read it whenever as long as he/she has the device the eBook is authorized for.