: Re: If a book doesn't have DRM does that mean it is OK to give a copy to my friend to read? I downloaded a book that does not have DRM (Digital rights management), I did not have to pay anything

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If you look only at the legal side, the answer is no, you can't give copies to a friend. And usually it should be easy enough for your friend to download a free copy himself, making it all legal. Would be different with a free movie that is a gigabyte download, but eBooks are usually quite small.

If you look at the ethical side, it's tricky. The author may try to get a commercial contract for his future books, so he wants to be able to say "my first novel had 100,000 free downloads, so you should pay me for the second one". Clearly you are interfering with this. There may be dozens of reasons why your action might hurt someone that I or you just didn't think of. So why not just do what is legal and ask your friend to download the book himself? If he doesn't have internet access, then I suppose downloading a second copy on his behalf would be fine.

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