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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Why do you say that? It sounds like you're assuming that everyone will behave like criminals. I guess in your world it's "guilty until proven innocent". I can also scan a pBook before I sell it, that doesn't mean everyone selling books to a used bookstore are criminals.
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Please do not make unwarranted assumptions about what I am saying. I simply mean that, once you have downloaded a book to your hard disk, it will remain there. "Deleting" it does not remove the data from your disk - it merely takes away the directory entry. You actually have to work pretty hard to physically "delete" it. If you give it away while the data for it remains on your hard disk, you have created an illegal copy of it, and are in breach of copyright.
I'm not at all sure that your argument that "It's OK if you don't download it again" holds up. The fact remains that it is "your" book, regardless of whether you choose to download it. It's like saying that, if you scan a book and then give that scan away, it's OK as long as you never take the paper book down from your bookshelf again. That's a very weak argument, IMHO.