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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm struggling to see any ethical difference between a long-term loan of one of my older Kindles with 5,000 books on it to a friend, and piracy. Wouldn't I effectively giving my friend a copy of my ebook library?
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Isn't the same true if you share in your family? Piracy applies only for breaking copyright. Multiple device usage implies that you effectively have the right to simultaneously use six (the default) copies at once. So lending out one device is not the same as lending out a paper book and still having and using a xerox copy for your own use. You are buying six copies of the ebook which can be on up to six physical devices at once.