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Originally Posted by HarryT
There would be only one set of circumstances in which I'd consider it ethically justifiable to pirate a book:
1. If no commercial eBook was available.
and:
2. I'd bought the paper book.
In those circumstances, I'd have no qualms about downloading a pirated eBook. However, if a commercial eBook did then become commercially available, I'd buy it.
So I'd have to answer "on occasions". Very rare occasions.
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I voted no before reading the replies and comments. HarryT's reply made me think. And if I could do my vote over I would have to vote Occasionally Once in Awhile.
I do strip DRM from all of my books. I buy them from different vendors and should not have to buy that vendors ereader to read what I legally bought. I have a Nook Color and I regularly buy from Amazon.
I have lots of physical books that are out of print and will probably never be released in an ebook format. Lots of science fiction and westerns and some other genres.
I have been thinking about, but not yet sent some of my out of print books off to be made into ebooks. I will now start to do so and as HarryT said, if they are released as ebooks I will gladly buy them.
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