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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Actually, I'm not trying to "make it morally excusable".
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You are saying you understand how others justify it. And you admitted doing it or not having a problem doing it yourself.
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For my own understanding though, what makes scanning a physical book for your own use morally okay in your system (I'm assuming that, so feel free to correct me), but downloading an ebook that someone else has scanned (where you own the physical book) not okay? Does going through more steps to get the ebook convert the whole matter from wrong to okay?
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If it is legally not wrong, than there is nothing wrong morally either for your own use if you do the scanning yourself or use a scanning service.
As for somebody else scanning it and you download: those times are long gone. Books for download are not format shifted pbooks anymore, but pirated ebooks. Removing drm from an ebook is impossible if you only got the pbook to begin with. Does not even matter if removing drm is legal or not in your jurisdiction, as soon as you distribute that book it becomes illegal just by distributing. Is it then morally ok to support an illegal upload that you could not do yourself?