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Originally Posted by pdurrant
So eating is not immoral, until it affects someone adversely?.
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The "someone" being the person who overeats.
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In which case file sharing of copyright ebooks is not immoral, until it affects someone adversely.
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No, the point I was sarcastically trying to make is that the situations are not analagous. There is a point at which you can say pretty much objectively that eating becomes gluttony. There is no similar point at which you can say that sharing books changes from good to bad.
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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.
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Suppose I buy only five books and share all of them? Suppose I buy fifty books and share forty-nine? And who is the "bad" person? The one who's sharing the books, or the one who's getting them for free?
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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
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Suppose it's a public library that's sharing one ebook with thousands of people? I suspect that might adversely affect sales too.