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Originally Posted by Catlady
You ignored what I said about illicit distribution, and you spun my comment into a wholesale defense of pirating, which is not what I intended.
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I was specifically responding to the following:
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Simply copying something that is intended to be disseminated and is being disseminated (as opposed to copying some private/personal/secret document), though--if there is no quantifiable harm to the originator of the material, and if the person who copied the material is not attempting to make money selling copies, what exactly makes it wrong?
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Perhaps I misunderstand you, but I'm sure you'll agree that this could be read as a blanket "what's the harm in illegal downloading?" idea. My apologies if I did misunderstand.
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Large-scale sharing is at least potentially harmful to the interests of the creator of the material. It is not the same as limited sharing with a friend. The two acts should not be painted with the same brush.
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Pretty much all devices provide a perfectly legitimate mechanism for "sharing with a friend". You don't have to pirate books in order to do this.