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Originally Posted by Robertb
Dear All:
I think you have to look at the INTENT. The intent is to prevent the passing of copyrighted books to others.
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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.