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Old 02-09-2011, 03:16 AM   #518
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
I say that sharing a library of 10,000 commercial in-copyright ebooks against the copyright holders wishes with 10,000,000 people isn't merely illegal, it's also immoral.

I say that sharing 1 ebook with 1 friend is illegal, but isn't immoral.

Since you're arguing that quantity doesn't matter in cases of morality, which which of these two assertions do you disagree?
Interesting point. But this only works if the world would have been black and white. Yet, there are all these shades of gray as well.

What if that book that is still in-copyright, isn't available in print anymore? And also not available in electronic print (except, naturally, that scanned copy)?
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