: 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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You need to check the "copyright" or the "terms of use" documentation provided by the platform you obtained the free ebook.

Example from Google Play Terms of Service:

6. Rights and Restrictions

License to Use Products. Following payment of the applicable fees for
a Product, you will have the non-exclusive right, for the period
selected by you in the case of a purchase for a rental period, and in
other cases for as long as Google and the applicable copyright holder
have rights to provide you that Product, to download or stream, in
each case, solely as expressly permitted by Google via the Play user
interface and subject to the restrictions set forth in these Terms and
associated policies, copies of the applicable Product to your Devices,
and to view, use, and display the Product on your Devices or as
otherwise authorized by Google as part of the Service for your
personal, non-commercial use only. All rights, title and interest in
Google Play and Products not expressly granted to you in these Terms
are reserved by Google and its licensors.

[...]

Sale, Distribution or Assignment to Third Parties. You may not sell,
rent, lease, redistribute, broadcast, transmit, communicate, modify,
sublicense or transfer or assign your rights to Products to any third
party without authorization, including with regard to any downloads of
Products that you may obtain through Google Play. Use of any tool or
feature provided as an authorized part of Google Play (for example,
“Social Recommendations”) shall not violate this provision so long as
you use the tool as specifically permitted and only in the exact
manner specified and enabled by Google.

EDIT:

Per your mention in chat in regards to Creative Commons Licence, it doesnt matter, if you agree to the site's terms that you will not transfer or pass around content than you aren't supposed to. That said I agree with Jason that your question leads towards I have this ebook from this site can I give a copy to my friend and that's not something we need or is in scope.

Coming from a design background, even if I give a site free access to download my work, or even put it on my site I include in the file that this is not for distribution by any means which is common. To add to that I am pretty sure sites would have that clause that you are not allowed to do so because it harbors good faith for handling a publisher's/author's content.

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