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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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I understand what you're getting at, so I appreciate your post. I still disagree that there is any moral distinction between downloading an MP3 album of a CD you own, or downloading the ebook version of the physical book you own. It feels like a distinction without a difference. I suppose there's an argument to be made that you're 'facilitating' copyright infringement by downloading, but I don't see how that argument can be made unless you're also uploading (a la bitorrent).
I doubt we're going to convince each other in this topic, but I appreciate your well articulated responses (this goes for DuckieTigger as well).