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Originally Posted by Robertb
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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You mean like a used bookstore? There's a difference between selling a book versus selling copies of a book. Copyright doesn't prevent the former.
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This can be done by sharing the eBooks (which the PID helps prevent) and by selling the eBook Reader with the PID on it. Either one is illegal.
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Those are two completely different things. Sharing the eBooks without authorization is clearly a copyright infringement. However, I don't see how selling an eBook Reader with a PID is illegal. Now if you keep copies of the content for yourself, then that's a problem. But selling a reader along with exclusive access to the content doesn't seem to violate any clauses of copyright that I've ever heard of.