[yencabulator]

You cannot even read an ebook without copying it from storage to RAM, to CPU cache, to video RAM, and so on; by your thinking, all owners of ebooks commit multiple instances of copyright infringement every time they read an ebook.

[jkdufair]

Making a copy in RAM, cache etc does not involve distributing it to other people.

[yencabulator]

You cannot lend someone a digital instance of the item without copying it. The problem is the sharing of supposedly-one-instance, not the copying.