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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Please, don't kid yourself. Some truly terrible individual would not have an issue with obtaining digital copies by format shifting out of thin air. Or put it differently: why bother to obtain the pbook in order to get the ebook for free.
Morally acceptable? But I am just format shifting. But I could do it myself, if I wanted to, and and and if I had the time to do that in.
And as you wish let us not talk about legal issues. That won't go anywhere.
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Pretty sure NinjaLawyer is being sarcastic with the 'morally reprehensible' bits.
My take?
'Format shifting' is just a fancy new term for what has always been done.
Old clothes become potholders, quilts, old rags and rugs. Cardboard boxes become pet beds. Packing materials get used to wrap presents. Grocery store bags line trashcans. And stories in paper get turned into other formats, read aloud to friends, digitized, enacted by LARPers. This kind of use is utterly acceptable, an integral part of the concept of exchanging items of value (i.e. paying money for something), and companies trying to prevent it are grossly overreaching acceptable behavior.
TL;DR I consider commercial entities trying to limit my ownership rights morally reprehensible.