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Originally Posted by barryem
I just got into a chat with Amazon's Kindle support and told him I've occasionally lent a Kindle to a friend with a book he wants to read on it, as well as any other books which might already be on that Kindle. I explained that someone said that it was wrong to do that and I wanted to find out if Amazon has any issues with it.
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This seems analogous to the early days of MP3s when people were ripping their CDs and "sharing" the MP3s with their friends and everyone else. They assumed, incorrectly, that since they owned the cd that they owned the music on it and could share it. But they only own the physical cd, which they can share.
And the example of Tor going DRM free could perhaps be strengthened by pointing to Apple's example of removing DRM from the iTunes store. As I remember it the music labels fought Steve Jobs on that but he eventually won.