Thread: Moral Stance
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Old 08-18-2009, 02:34 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
As long as you delete the book, page scans, etc, from your PC and all your reading devices at the end of the library loan period, I would have no moral issues with this. If you don't delete them, then I do have issues, since in that circumstance you have, in essence, "stolen" a copy of the book from the library (quotes indicating that it is not technically "stealing", for the pedants among us).

It's not pedantic to use the correct term. If you steal, then you deprive the original owner of their property. Copying does not equal stealing.
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