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Originally Posted by Shaggy
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.
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No, it's much more down to the fact that, whereas with a pBook, you have to consciously make a copy of it if you wish to have one (eg by scanning it or photocopying it), with an eBook multiple copies automatically exist as a part of the normal mechanism of use, and the typical computer user probably doesn't have the knowledge to eradicate all those copies.
How much would the law actually require you to do in terms of "deleting" your book if you wanted to give it someone else or sell it? Flush your web cache? Physically destroy any backup DVDs you may have made? Use a secure deletion tool to overwrite it on the physical disk? I don't know the answer to those questions - do you?