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Originally Posted by HarryT
I am against piracy, Jon. "Lending" a book to all your mates is piracy. Format conversion hurts nobody.
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That's a subjective opinion. You're allowing your passion to blind you to the fact that "harm/hurt" is not something you're the definitive authority on. That you
believe one is harmful where another is not, is not proof that it's so. You have every right to place the almighty "copyright" above any other rule/regulation/law, but that doesn't mean everyone must share that opinion. Breaking the rules is breaking the rules. You shouldn't vilify breaking one, but rationalize (and possibly even encourage) breaking another just because you don't see the harm in it.
If you feel you should be free to pick and choose which rules you're going to abide by and which ones you're going to break, don't you think others deserve that same latitude?