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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
While I fully agree with you carld, it's a lost cause here. I've learned trying to convince many people here of what you are saying merely resulted in heated arguments that degenerated in the other parties resorting to hateful insults directed at me when I kept punching holes in their arguments. Unless people are ethical enough to understand the difference between right and wrong, honesty and stealing, they will just rationalize their actions with lame arguments, suchas there is no loss of a sale if you duplicate something you wouldn't have bought in the first place. It still is stealing but people will believe what is convenient for them to believe. At this point I'm bowing out.
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Let's see... I can go to my public library, check out a newly-released 'blockbuster' novel, take it home and read it. And, if I like it, there's nothing stopping me from slapping it down on my printer/copier/scanner and scanning in each page to my computer (fair use after all) before returning the book to my library. And once it's been scanned, I can use my legally-purchased software to turn those scans into either a PDF file or a text document file, which I can then convert to .mobi, .epub, .lrf or even .pdb/.prc. All of these steps are legal to me to do.
Now how have I, according to the law, 'stolen' anything? Yet, if I download said pre-converted ebooks - for free, mind you - I've somehow 'committed a crime'???
Please, explain how doing it myself is 'legal', but letting a friend - or total stranger - do it is 'illegal'. Especially as either method generates no 'income' for either party.
Derek