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Originally Posted by tompe
For me it really does not feel ethically wrong to rip your CD collection and sell it. It seems equivalent with buying a book, reading it, and then selling it. The normal use of a CD is to listen to it many times. The normal use of a book is to read it once.
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Do very many people here really only read books once? I only ever read boring books once (sometimes twice because I like to most things the benefit of doubt!) but any book that I have enjoyed will be read many many times.
Surely the whole point of discussing the ethics and legalities of downloading darknet versions of books you already own assumes people are going to read the books again.
What's the point of downloading something if you aren't going to read it?
