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Originally Posted by tompe
So everybody that have a copy of än ebook are copyright infringers. That is good. Then we will get less arguments against copyright infringements here.
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No, this is about format-shifting, not copying of digital media. It would only impact someone who created their own ebooks by scanning paper books; I suspect that not many people do that. It will remain legal to make as many copies as you want of ebooks that you've bought, and it will remain illegal to copy an ebook that you haven't bought (unless it's in the public domain, etc etc).
Basically it may be a reversion to the silly situation we had for many years whereby someone was technically breaking the law if they bought a music CD and ripped it to their MP3 player, a position that everyone, government and music industry included, agreed was ridiculous, and for which nobody was ever prosecuted.
It'll be interesting to see what the court decides is the appropriate course of action next month.