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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But you can still recover the moved file from your hard drive as long as the directory entry and disk space have not yet been overwritten.
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Just because you
can do something, doesn't mean you're guilty of actually doing it.
People in this discussion keep looking for loopholes that would make it possible to violate copyright by selling/lending eBooks. I'm sure they exist. However, that doesn't mean that there aren't legitimate ways of doing it as well. In order for something to be done legally does not mean we have to eliminate all possible ways of doing it illegally.
The government doesn't have to ban all xerox machines in order for it to be legal to sell a pBook. There's no automatic assumption that every pBook in a used bookstore has been photocopied by it's previous owner. Could they have... sure. If they did, then they're guilty. That doesn't mean that it's illegal to sell a used book.
Yes, selling someone an eBook and then recovering the file from disk after you've moved/deleted it would probably be copyright infringement. Just don't do that.
I think some people on here WANT it to be illegal, so they keep twisting the scope of the discussion in order to incorporate illegal elements into the topic that don't need to be there. There are many things that you
could do when selling an eBook that would violate copyright. Just don't do them.