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Old 09-25-2008, 10:01 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
If you can legally make your own eBook from a pBook that you own, then downloading the same eBook being illegal is just stupid. Technically that may be the law, but what's the point? The end result is the same.
Wearing my techie hat I agree with you. But when I start thinking like a 'troublemaker' I see examples like this:

I hold you up at knife-point and take a book from you. I then stuff the price of the book in your pocket and walk away. Obviously this should be legal, because the end result is just the same as if I just bought the book from you in the first place. Right?

The analogy here is clearly not perfect. But the point is that end results are not the only consideration; process matters too.

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