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Originally Posted by HarryT
We are, but I suspect that there aren't too many of us who would think that making or downloading an eBook copy and then giving someone else the paper book was ethically acceptable. That's a pretty blatant example of copyright infringement. It would be like buying a CD, ripping it onto your iPod, and then selling the CD on eBay.
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Personally, with CDs, I treat the physical copy as a kind of license and hang onto it, even though I listen to everything digitally. However, I think that you might be wrong in thinking that this is the majority view. I read a journalist in the Grauniad the other day openly admitting (in a national newspaper - duh!) that she'd ripped all her CDs and sold them. I think this is quite common, and people don't think about it in terms of copyright at all.