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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
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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A commercial ebook (which virtually all pirated books are these days) is a very different product to a self-scanned book. The commercial ebook is not merely "format shifting" from the printed book, whereas an MP3 file ripped from a CD could reasonably be said to be such.