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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
It's basically the same as stealing Library books, isn't it ?
It seems that that is what is happening if you strip the DRM from a library issue, surely.
And doesn't d/loading a book for free that is in copywright come into the same category ? in that you are preventing income going to the writer or his/her estate, if that is the law concerning that work.
You may disagree with the law, but does that mean it is right to break it ?
Or Patent Law, intellectual Rights Law, artistic ownership rights, plagierizm law, property ownership law................
Interesting chain of thought, that rarely seems to come up when book copywright law is discussed, somehow.......................
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There is a difference when you talk stripping DRM from a library eBook vs. downloading from the net.
The library has the eBook and you are allowed to borrow it for up to 2 or 3 weeks. Then if you want it again or are not finished reading it, you have to borrow it again,. You may have to go to the back of the waiting list and wait some rather long time for your turn. So instead of having it expire and then maybe have to wait all over again, you strip the DRM and keep it. You could have gone back to the library for all the times you want to read it and get it. But there's a chance of having to wait. This way, you don't have to wait.
You find an eBook on the net that is not available at any library you can access. You download it and read it and keep it. Now you have an eBook that you were never supposed to get for free. You've deprived the author of the income from that eBook.
With the library eBook, it is wrong to keep it. But you would have the right to borrow it over and over. So in keeping it, you are not depriving that author any income from that eBook. But, you might be depriving that author income from other eBooks. The library might keep track of how popular eBooks are and buy more from the more popular authors. So you skew the results by keeping the eBook instead of reborrowing.
Another thing you can do with library eBooks is strip the DRM, keep it until you've finished reading it and then delete all copies. If you go past the borrow time, it's still wrong, but not as wrong as you still have to go back to the library to borrow it again if you want to access it. So if the library keeps track of borrows, you don't skew the results as much.