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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
But you know where the ebook originated - from someone who stole it. Doesn't that put you off some?
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When you say "stole it", what does that mean to you? That they walked out the door of the shop with it? Or just that they digitized it on their own, and put it on the Internet?
If it's the second, then how is that different than digitizing it yourself? The end result is the same...
I also think that this constant repetition of "theft", "stolen", etc, is unhelpful. There's a huge difference between stealing something and violating copyright - the biggest being that stealing deprives someone else of their copy, while violating copyright does not.
Obviously, both are illegal. But they're not the same thing. At the very least, conflating the two confuses people like me, when you make statements like the above :-)