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Originally Posted by carld
I disagree. It's certainly copyright infringement. It may not, as a matter of technical law, be defined as theft, but that doesn't really change things, and I'm not going to argue definitions. Taking something that doesn't belong to you is stealing. Just because it's easy to do with ebooks doesn't make it any less wrong.
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If I put a paper book under a copier and put all those copies together in a new book, it's not called theft. It's called copyright infringement (as the copyright in about all books say you can't copy from it without permission from the publisher).
What's the difference? Oh, I borrowed that book from a friend, and gave it back to him afterwards.