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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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The moral issue here is that the store who sold you the badly-formatted copy should have given you your money back. Now you know what kind of store that is, hopefully you won't shop there anymore, you'll warn others, and eventually, they'll have to clean up their act and sell good stuff.
The legal issue here is... you still took an illegal copy of the book. That doesn't change, no matter what-all you bought before.