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I think it's a worthy discussion and I'm trying to find analogies, too. If you own a VHS tape could one feel reasonably to be entitled to the DVD? If so, should one feel that it's okay to download an illegal copy of it? The answer for me is no in both cases. In the first case because it's quite a step in technology from VHS to DVD so it seems right to me that the equivalent of the author and publisher in this case should be paid for the digital version. In the second case because of where it came from - a thief. For music, it's legal to create MP3s from your CDs for your own use so really neither of these seem to me to be quite analogous to the pbook to ebook question you pose. Hmmm.
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