Oh? We're having another one of these?
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Originally Posted by Alisa
I speed a little and occasionally jaywalk, too, but I don't steal.
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Ohboy! My pet peeve
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Let's repeat: if you download an ebook (or a song, a movie or anything of the sort) your trespass isn't thief, it's
copyright infringement. Which is very probably way less potentialy harmful to society than you "speeding a little".
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I'm fine with the idea of stripping the DRM off a book I've paid for to preserve my use of it even if it may violate a law. I'm not ok with taking a book without the owners being compensated for it.
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You know, "
compensated" is a very interesting way to put it. It suggests that anytime anybody reads a book, its author is hurt and must be compensated for that. And here I thought the worst that could happen to any writter was
NOT being read...