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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Okay, but explain to me why you feel digitizing on your own versus downloading the same result is morally any different? I have everything I'd need to digitize a book but the effort to end up at the same place seems absurd.
I could see the difference if I was paying a Chinese pirate (land o' scofflaws these days) for his digitized copy. That would be financing piracy. But a "free" download in the wild?
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But it's a free download of something that was stolen. And if I had thought about, I think I should have said the same thing about the stolen software. I want nothing of them. But my biggest questions to you now are: do you float and do you weigh the same as a duck?