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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
If I am going away for a month to another country, it's easier to transport my collection on my sansa clip, and not be holding my breath that naturally MY luggage is the one that will get lost or stolen?....
In the olden days when I got film developed on my camera, I also wanted to keep the negative even though I had the photo sitting in my album...
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I was really just curious what you thought the difference was between ripping a CD you own and just downloading an MP3 (where you also own the CD). You seemed to imply there was a difference.
As for ebooks, I'm not sure where I fall when it comes pirating a copy when you already paid for the paper version (and no legit ebook version is available). I can see the argument that it's up to the author/publisher to decide to put it in ebook form, but I'm not sure how its really different than ripping a CD or a DVD you own, which is legal (assuming the dvd doesn't have a digital lock).
Why is format shifting a DVD/CD okay, but doing the same to a book morally questionable (at best)?