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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Therefore, ebooks should be considered in the context of software and broadcast services, as a digital file created by a service and offered by a provider (and therefore requiring the mutual agreement of the customer to compensate the service/provider for their work as requested), and protected by the same statutes that prevent unauthorized re-broadcast or reuse of broadcasts.
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The legal precedents following those rules allowed for taping movies & sharing them with friends. Allowed for time- and format-shifting for personal & family use. Allowed for mix-tapes of movie clips to be made for entertainment or educational use. Allowed for copies to be played on multiple devices, as many as a person wants to buy. Allows the copies to be carried to a friend's house to watch on his 42" TV.
Publishers don't want to say, "it's like cable," because cable allows a lot of activities they want to prevent.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
This is Indiana law, but it's based on the Model Penal Code.
"unauthorized control over property of another person, with intent to deprive the other person of any part of its value or use"...
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Wow, not even sticking with losses; for that one, you need
intent of deprivation of value or use. If you *didn't know* that distributing 500 digital copies would cost the music company money, you're off the hook.
If you honestly believe that distributing free e-copies increases physical sales, you're not violating this law.