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Originally Posted by TGS
Mmm, somewhere between Post 1 and Post 40 I think the topic meandered a bit - imagine that!
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You're kidding!
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Actually, I was referring to the post by Jadon that you replied to saying that the ethical considerations weren't different. The example in that context was
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I buy the Hardcover, and then I download the ebook from the dark
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Opinions on the ethics of this one vary. It clearly involves an illegal act in many jurisdictions—the UPloading of the copy you downloaded. The act of downloading is legal in some jurisdictions and not in others. YMMV, and all that.
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The first example never mentioned uploading, only downloading. Yes, for torrents and some other varieties of p2p, downloading implies uploading (or at least 'making available'), but for usenet, or RapidShare, or other ways of getting a file, no uploading is necessary, so it doesn't have to enter into ethical consideration.
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I'm not sure the ethical considerations are that different, though the legal ones may be.
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