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Originally Posted by HarryT
You know damned well that you're breaking the law, and you choose to do so
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You scream we're criminals but it's the idiocy of this law that we were all debating here. You and another agree with it while the rest of us think it's foolish.
You say we're stealing money from your pocket but the book you're currently proofreading, Bleak House by Dickens, is long out of copyright and the text is
freely available via Gutenberg.
The media giants scream we're taking their money but they didn't mind when they sold us tat and then refused to provide a refund because we'd opened the shrink wrapping. They're also happy to sell an ebook at the same price as the existing pbook but put no effort into the conversion other than run it through an OCR device. Even when you buy your ebook you find you don't even own a copy but apparently just have some strange sort of license to read it.
Perhaps the following quote is the most applicable here:
Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle