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Let's take a real world example that we can all relate to. Let's say I bought a copy of the Harry Potter #7. Then I download an ebook copy after that. Now I have a legal pbook and an illegal ebook. But there is no legal ebook. Has anyone lost any revenue for my reading the ebook considering I have the pbook? I could have downloaded the ebook without bothering to purchase the pbook. Now, who's pocket did I just deprive of any revenue? Nobody. I even added to it by the purchase of the pbook. So now I would have the pbook and the ebook. If at some point down the line, an ebook was to be released in a format my reader can handle and I still keep my ebook copy, then I might be guilty of taking revenue. But if I was to then find out about the legal ebook and go and delete my illegal ebook, has anyone been done any harm? Not a single person. Not by me, I'm not going on about the person I got the ebook from or anyone else who downloaded it. So what Iw ould be ending up with would be a legal pbook and if the ebook is release legally, either I buy that or I have no ebook. But in the meanwhile, having the illegal ebook hurts nobody.
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