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Originally Posted by HarryT
And do you believe this to be the case? I don't, any more than I believe that anyone who downloads an illegal eBook would have bought it. My objection to the latter is not primarily lost sales, but the principle of committing a crime.
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Here is a situation I'd like your take on it.
You purchase a legal ebook. You load it on your reader but find that either due to too many errors or poor formatting or both, you just cannot enjoy reading that book. So you stop reading it. You go back to the shop you got it from and ask for a refund and you are told no. Sometime in future you happen to find an ebook copy of this same book that someone scanned. You download this copy and convert it and format it how you like. You still have the legal copy and now the illegal copy. You paid for the legal copy, but have been unable to read it. Do you see there to be a moral issue here? I kow technically legally the law was broken.