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Originally Posted by pdurrant
There is a limited supply of second-hand books. Anyone buying a second-hand book is reducing the number available, and indirectly making sales of new copies more likely.
There's an infinite supply of copied ebooks.
That's the difference.
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So the fact that buying from a reseller depletes stock is what makes the difference between theft and not? How so?
I thought the fact that the author wasn't getting payed for the use of his/her work was the key to determining theft. If that's true then buying from a reseller is also theft correct?