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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Copying ebooks and handing them to strangers is not. However if the essential *moral* issue is, "someone is reading without paying the author," libraries and p2p sharing have the same ethical problems.
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The moral issue goes beyond not paying the author. Piracy is in the same ballpark with book shoplifting and plagiarism, the latter being, among other things, another form of copyright infringement. The moral issue is using the book in a way not authorized by the author (or, in the case of many books, the book team including author, editor, agent, translator, designer, and support staff).