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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
You do bring up valid points. In the USA, it is legal to rip your CDs for your own use, such as on portable devices, media shifting, or for back up purposes.
The point I was referring to was people using legal definitions as a crutch to rationalize unethical behavior.
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Speaking only for myself, I wasn't using the definition to rationalize anything. I just think we should call things what they are. Downloading an illegally copy of a book is copyright infringement. Shoplifting a physical copy of a book is theft.
Infringement hurts the author and publisher and possibly an unknown bookseller.
Theft hurts the legal owner of the book.