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Originally Posted by darryl
The law and morality are of course often if not mostly two different things. And of course the morality that is relevant here is people's individual moral codes. On top of this is the fact that we are all only human, and so we sometimes break even our own moral codes. More often than not, we tend to rationalise such breaches though there is a refreshing trend in this thread for some to say I don't care, I'm doing it even though I think it's morally wrong. Though none of us are totally immune to rationalisation........
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The view that copyright holders can do anything they like stems from the view that a copyright is the same as physical property. Morally, at least in my view, copyrights are subject to the overriding purpose for which they are granted. When this is essentially making more books available I find it hard to construe as moral the withholding of such books.
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Very well put. It would have taken me a lot longer to gome up with something half as good.