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Originally Posted by pdurrant
You are both wrong. Doing so is illegal.
When you sign up with Kobo, you agree to their terms and conditions. Break those conditions and your license to read the book is no longer valid.
One of their terms and conditions is that the licence is valid only for the person buying the licence. No-one else, not friend, not child, not spouse, is allowed to read the copy, even on a device authorised to the original purchaser's account.
I asked Kobo about this back in 2012. The full email chain (most recent first) is in the block at the end of this post.
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I posted earlier on in this thread that John Scalzi was happy for his DRM free eBooks
Redshirts to be loaned to a friend and even format shifted. That goes against Kobo's T&C. They say I cannot loan you a copy to read and the author says I can. I would say that the author trumps Kobo.
How can Kobo have such a blanket statement when does not apply to all the eBooks they sell? If Kobo was to deactivate my account because I was caght loaning a copy of
Redshirts that I purchased from Kobo to you, I don't think any judge would find me guilty given that Scalzi said it's OK to do so and same goes for format shifting.