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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it's most certainly not a "red herring", as you call it. Copyright law is all about the making of copies (by definition!), and if the ability to re-sell an ebook is dependent upon there being no other copies of that ebook held by the seller, it is very pertinent to ask to what lengths the seller has to go to in order to ensure that this is the case. I do not know what the answer to that question is.
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I agree that your inquiry is pertinent to the matter. The answer is that he has to do whatever a "reasonable man" (meaning normal everyday person who reads ebooks) would be expected to do. Which, in my view, is delete the file using the delete button.
Sure, there are random copies floating around the computer which a knowledgeable computer person can find &/or recover. But the act of deleting evidences an intent not to retain a usable copy of the ebook, so for practical purposes, he hasn't retained a copy, and that's all the law will care about.