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Originally Posted by cjschmidt
I know that a lot of people here don't think "format shifting" is legitimate, but I think you'll have a hard time convincing the general public of that. The government has clearly stated that putting CDs on you iPod is fair use. Many people rip DVDs to put them on mobile devices - though they are technically breaking the DMCA. Steve Jobs is currently working to include a mobile-ready version of the movie on HDDVD and Bluray. If we all had one of those Google OCR book scanners I don't think there would even be a question here.
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Not too many people around here are debating or denigrating "Fair use," whether it involves burning your own CDs to MP3, or scanning and converting your copy of a book into an e-book format. If you are doing it for your own use, most people here consider it okay.
What some of us object to is the idea of downloading a book in such a way that it denies the author a legitimate sale, and a way to earn a living, as Sparrow and jackdavid seem to favor.