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Originally Posted by rlauzon
I don't believe that there's any definitive judgment on this yet.
In the U.S., it's perfectly legal to time/space shift content you have purchased. So if I have a CD, I can make MP3s from it to put on my MP3 player. I can rip my DVDs to my portable video player.
By extension, I should be able to make eBook versions of my paper books to read on my eBook reader.
I believe that how you acquire the electronic version of your content is irrelevant. What's the difference between you ripping your DVD and downloading the same movie? The end result is the same. (The person who is making the content available electronically is in trouble, however.)
But others disagree on this thinking that content can be "illegal". (These are usually the same people who think that ideas can be owned like property.)
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A person can spend a lot of time, money, talent, effort to write a book or create anything - it doesn't have to be a book. Their creation belongs to them. They can sell it or give it away as they please. It's not for other people to steal it as if they have some automatic right to it. It's not that difficult of a concept for people interested in respecting the rights of others, and I imagine it's not that difficult for anyone who's ever worked hard at creating something just to have it stolen by disrespectful people who think everything in the world belongs to them.