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Originally Posted by HarryT
It is piracy. It's not my opinion: it's an undeniable fact. That's what piracy is: the unauthorised reproduction of copyrighted material.
I make absolutely no claims to hold the "moral high ground" on this or any other matter.
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It's also "undeniable fact" that format-shifting is against the rules and constitutes copyright infringement. Here's one copyright notice from a HarperCollins e-book:
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By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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But you've decided it's still OK to format-shift? Because you get to pick and choose which rules to follow and which to ignore?