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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
...lending...
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The only aspect of your post I have a problem with is calling the making of an unauthorized duplicate of a copyrighted work, keeping one for yourself and giving the other to someone that has no right to have it "lending." That's what I clarified with Harry while ago. That's the ebook "lending" most folks are talking about.
As for everything else, I agree. What I guess I'm taking a stand on is the idea that for the things involving breaking the rules to be "right" you'd need to start from the idea of knowing they are "wrong" and then having context to justify breaking them, not just rationalizing them by claiming they are not wrong.
Stealing a car for Aunt Mary is the same as stealing a car for a chop shop.
BUT stealing a car because Aunt Mary (or anyone) was injured and had to get to a hospital and there was no other way to get there is not wrong!
Breaking a law because it's unjust might be worthy civil disobedience.
Bending a rule because it intrudes on more important rights and freedoms may also be legitimate justification. Perhaps subjective, but I wouldn't take a black and white stand about that.
But trying rationalize it away by quibbling about what the proper word for the particular transgression is, or by dismissing the idea of following rules or laws as unimportant is a clear sign that you are just unethically trying to get something dishonestly. For Aunt Mary of for the chop shop, a friend or a public server, $1 or $1000, without a justifiable context, is just all the same.
ApK