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Old 07-26-2014, 11:59 AM   #26
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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.
There's a rather fundamental difference between using a cardboard box as a pet bed, and thinking that it's OK to download pirated books merely because you've bought the paper book.
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