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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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IMHO
The purpose of the law, at least in my country, is not to control every single bit of information in your computer. It's just to have just one person
owning the e-book at a time.
Even if it's in the web cache and stays there, where's the problem? What's the difference between "nobody will ever see it", and "it does not exist" in this case?
As long as the book is read by one single reader (actually 4 of them, with Mobipocket) it should be fine wiith every copyright holder!
I know that one can retrieve the file from the cache, but he can also upload it on a Kindle and use the reader as a weapon to kill his wife...
