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Originally Posted by Randeep
Well if someone has made the eBook already and I download that, why is that any worse than if I created my own e-book? Are we suggesting that having to perform the labor of the media's creation legitimizes its ownership?
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The law is a little silly in this regards. You're right, there really is no difference as far as you making your own eBook, or downloading one. Where there is a difference though, is that the person you download it from is committing copyright infringement. They're still breaking copyright law by being an unauthorized distributor, regardless of whether you as the downloader own the pBook.
So from the downloaders/scanners perspective it's the same thing. But the uploader shouldn't have been providing copies in the first place.