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Old 06-29-2009, 12:52 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by Robertb View Post
Dear All:

I think you have to look at the INTENT. The intent is to prevent the passing of copyrighted books to others.
But it is legal to pass copyrighted books on to others; people do it at yard sales all the time.

The *intent* is to insist on one payment = 1 reader, which is not a legally-enforceable desire. The means they are using is copyright law, which is an odd thing to stretch in that direction; it mostly works for ebooks, but as storage media get cheaper, it will have problems.

It's legal to sell a memory card packed with purchased ebooks, if they are not "illegal copies." It's unclear what an "illegal copy" is, of a book you've legally purchased.
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