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Originally Posted by Catlady
Not really. I think eating becomes gluttony when it adversely affects the health and well-being of the person doing the eating. I don't know what effect would be analogous for someone who is either uploading or downloading files--a deterioration of one's personal moral health? How do you measure that? By how many file sharers become shoplifters or burglars?
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So eating is not immoral, until it affects someone adversely?
In which case file sharing of copyright ebooks is not immoral, until it affects someone adversely.
I claim that sharing every ebook you buy with one friend is likely to adversely affect at least one of the authors of those ebooks.
I claim that sharing one ebook with 100,000 other people is likely to adversely affect sales of that ebook, and thus adversely affect the publisher of that ebook.