Thread: Do you pirate books and why?
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Old 01-31-2012, 02:25 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash View Post
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.
Absolutely correct. Uploading (or downloading) an eBook that never had DRM (for example, a Baen book) is just as much piracy as one that once had DRM that was stripped. DRM is NOT the issue, and I continue to strip the DRM from every single book I buy, full stop. But I also don't upload them or give them away to others beyond the rights that are legitimately allowed.
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