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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
If someone steals your car while you are on vacation, and when you have recovered it you discover that they have changed the oil and filled the tank, I don't see any moral issue with driving the car with those improvements. If you don't own anything, you don't gain any rights over it (moral or otherwise) by improving it.
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Like other attempts to equate one specific type of crime with another completely different one, this doesn't really work. The ebook didn't exist until the fan made it, and unless the fan rewrote any clumsy descriptions or fixed any plot holes, they didn't improve it either.
It's more like someone recording a band live (or to be more exact, digitising a vinyl album) and then making it available for free so that other fans don't need to pay inflated prices from commercial bootleggers (or collector vinyl shops).