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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
A more appropriate analogy is that you have a 3d printer, see a shirt at the store you like, print out a copy of that shirt, are fined before you wear the shirt, print out another shirt you don't wear and get fined again. Or, you print out a shirt you saw at the store, decide you hate it and print out a different shirt.
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If we apply your analogy to ebooks, and someone laboriously typed out or scanned a book that they borrowed so they could keep it, then I could sort of agree. Even photocopying is not the offence it once was. But downloading a copy of an ebook is not the same thing. It does not inject any significant effort into the equation.
Again, I am not I am totally against people doing a lot of things if the circumstance demand it. Self defense, feeding the children, being totally shirtless or nude with no hope of getting clothing without stealing it. I am not in a position to cast the first stone. It just irritates me no end when people attempt to justify it and encourage others to do it without need. Irritates me too when people try to pose as health care professionals or freedom fighters to disinfect or liberate their books
They can do what they want IMO but why repeatedly make such a ninny of themselves in public
Helen