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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
So, producing the digital copy is wrong, for anyone but the creator and their authorized resellers (or you, for personal use only). Your obtaining an unauthorized copy, free or otherwise, is violating the creator's rights, and denying them the profit from a legitimate purchase. The only way you are not "hurting" them is to not take the e-book.
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Some people, Steve, appear to hold the rather odd view that a lost sale is not "depriving the author of money", since the author never had that money in the first place. The logic of this rather escapes me, but this is an argument that one not infrequently encounters.