Quote:
Originally Posted by DaleDe
Of course just giving a file to all or any of your friends is a copyright violation and against the law. Even if you trust them with your credit card number.
|
I have no idea if there are any legal opinions that address this point, but if a publisher relies on DRM then anything that DRM allows is on its face allowed. This could be more permissive than standard copyright law (e.g. beyond fair use), because the DRM is from an agent of the copyright holder.
The usual case for sharing credit card info for ebooks would be within your immediate family, and most people probably think this is obviously ok. Other schemes, like the Kindle's "one account six devices", Adobe's "one AdobeID six devices", and MobiPocket's "4 devices (PIDs) per ebook" also allow limited sharing by multiple individuals.