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Originally Posted by HarryT
So you deleted all copies from your PC? You've removed the copy you downloaded from your internet cache? You've deleted the copy of the e-mail from the "send items" folder of your mail program? If the answer to any of these is "no", then how can you say that "there is only one copy floating around"?
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Actually I agree you have a point. If only to totally remove the temptation to recover a copy for one's own use latter on.
I am also on the iffy side of even passing on the ebook file, even it all traces are then deleted. The analogy to what can be done with a paper book is nice, but it still remains the fact that a digital file is not the same as a paper book. Even if you are so scrupulously honest (about erasing all copies of the file from your computer and other devices) the person you passed the file onto is free to make copies and send them anywhere.
It's a real contradiction While I maintain the right to do whatever manipulation I choose to an ebook file I have legally purchased in order to make it useful to me I know the action opens up the possibility for me to share it in ways that deprive the seller of his legitimate rights and interests.
But a least from a moral standpoint that is what it will always come down to. Each individual's moral integrity. DRM can't substitute for that.