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Originally Posted by Larken
I tend to use bittorrent and other sources of books as more of a try before you buy system. If I read the first of a series or a new author and enjoy it, then I buy their stuff. As for not having the right to to download that which I own in paper format, I'm not sure about the legality. I know there are a number of books that I've purchased in a bookstore and then downloaded a normally less than legal copy for my ebook reader to have it for convenience. I tend to see music in the same way. If I owned the music on a cassette in my younger days, I don't see the issue with downloading an mp3. I don't feel that I'm doing anything morally wrong. I'm not sure how the law views it.
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Legally it doesn't matter if you own the CD or the pbook when downloading. (it doesn't make sense with MP3s since you could just get them off your CD!). But I do see your point, "morally" it definitely is in a different category than just straight downloading. But the big question is, why support such websites that mainly exist to help people to break the law?