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Originally Posted by sirbruce
You guys may be off on a side-issue. There's a critical difference when a physical book, bought once, can only be loaned to one person at a time, and an ebook, bought once, which can be "loaned" to an infinite number of people at a time, who never have to return it, without the purchaser losing anything. Again, this is akin to libraries printing up new copies of the physical book for free and letting people walk away with them.
It may be true that currently DRM schemes currently prevent one-time lending as well, but that's a software issue; it doesn't address the underlying morality of ebook copying.
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So you mean to tell me that the whole matter is that you have to lend it out one at a time but many downloaders can read it at the same time. Do you think this is really so important? If it is a fairly popular book you would have to wait maybe a week before you got to read it!
Also, no it is not like the library making infinite copies. The reason is that like libraries, filesharing gives you access to the content only. Not the book own.