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Old 07-17-2012, 06:32 PM   #98
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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley View Post
As the law currently stands, breaking the copyright on someone else's material is against the law. So even if it's not "stealing" per se, they're still knowingly doing something they know they shouldn't be doing.
As the law currently stands, fair use of copyrighted material is allowed. This is what you and some of the other anti-piracy people are ignoring. The question should be, What are the boundaries of fair use for an e-book? Does it really make sense that there should never be any fair-use exception for an e-book?

Saying that everything except one purchase/one reader is piracy is just silly. It's like saying there's no difference between making a copy of an e-book for Great-aunt Matilda to read in the nursing home and uploading the e-book to a file-sharing site for the enjoyment of thousands of strangers.
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