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A paper book that is scanned and then made available for all to read is still a pirated work. JKR's books are all scanned or retyped. There are no e-books to buy, remove the DRM, and then send out to whoever wants them. They are still pirated.
I am not a legal expert and I have not stayed in a Holiday Inn Express but I would think that any book that is legally copywrited (sp) and is made available to the public by someone other then the person/company that is legally allowed to sell the book is being pirated.
How it is made available is not important. Scanning, stripping DRM, retyping, it doesn't matter. If you do not own the rights to the book you should not be distributing the books. That goes for DRM free books that are sold or even given away for free. It is up to the rights owner to decide how to distribute the book. The rights owner can change their mind and decide that they are going to sell the book now. Just because you got it for free without DRM does not mean that you can give it away to someone without the permission of the rights owner.
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