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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I would argue that ethically they are the same. In general, people are not buying the container -- they may have a preference over the container they use (ebook, paperback, hardback, etc.) but what they ultimately want is the content. So changing the container that you are using to distribute the content should be irrelevant to the ethical dimension of what you are doing.
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Bill
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My point was that stealing a container, and obtaining an illegal copy of the content, are not the same. I don't think that either the law, or morality has caught up with the shift to digital media, but clearly there is
a difference between taking a container with content in it, and taking a copy of the content only.