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Originally Posted by Lemurion
As the law stands, unauthorized downloads are not legal. Period, end of sentence. Now many MR members and even some authors do not have a significant problem with a person downloading an electronic version of a book they physically own if there is no legal electronic version available. It's illegal but not everyone considers it wrong.
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Which is why I specifically used the example of a pbook owner scanning and digitizing a work for own personal use (the well-known format shifting).
It would also shift the focus from "you have an illegal ebook" to "how do you prove I downloaded this illegally and didn't scan it myself"?