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Originally Posted by tompe
If I want to read a book I often borrow it from a friend so you are trivially wrong in your statement above.
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You can borrow and lend books from and to friends. That is not illegal. It is totally your right. You can also go to a library and borrow books there - even ebooks in some libraries. They also use DRM and limit the life time of such ebooks.
If an ebook has been bought at fictionswise or mobipocket you can also borrow an ebook from friends or lend them some. They or you simply have to change the PIDs on the shop site the books were bought at. That's the legal way. It is a little more complicated than simply give you paper book to a friend, sure. But you usually paid less for an ebook than you would have paid for a paper book, and besides technical issues it is the same. You bought one paper book and can lend only one. If you lend it, you won't have it anymore until you get it back. It's the same with DRM protected ebooks. Where is the problem?
Alan