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Originally Posted by HarryT
In what way to you consider licences to be immoral? What moral precepts do they violate?
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The "license" concept for e-books takes away some very basic rights from me -- most of all, the right to
keep a book, regardless of future technical, commercial or political developments. In almost all cases, the necessary steps to ensure that I'll still be able to read an ebook in the future, and that I can share it with family and friends in the way that I can share a printed book -- all of it what I consider to be fair use -- explicitly violate the terms of the license. But if I cannot keep a book, if I cannot share it, if I cannot build my own library so that it can
last, this ultimately undermines our whole understanding of literature. Morality, of course, is in the eye of the beholder, and I should have tried to argue without claiming it to be on my side.