> Faux Pas correctly mentioned that the difference is that someone who borrows a book from a library does not then own a copy of the work. Grishny correctly said that one of the crucial differences is that the borrowed work is not necessarily returned (or deleted) afterward.
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> The other difference is that the borrowed music file may be listened by multiple people at the same time, which is not legal unless Napster purchased a license from the distributor to allow for that. A library has one copy of the book. It can loan it to one person at a time. One person can read it at a time.
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> The rules about computer software piracy, since the same person can own multiple computers, and since it is perfectly legal for the owner of a software product to lend it to another, are that it's ok as long as you can *guarantee* that no two people are running two different installations of the software at the same time. Once it starts running on separate computers simultaneously, that's when it becomes piracy.
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> S "piracy is not quite the same thing as copyright infringement" am

AAUGH! That should teach me to not read all the posts before jumping in with a reply. Well, at least I think I added _something_ that Sam didn't... A whole lot of extraneous words. *groan*

Don "SIGH" Monkey