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Originally Posted by peaceridge
Going away from the copyright issue for a moment and back to pirating: I was at a campground discussing this very issue. A couple of people had comments that I haven’t seen discussed here. The question is at what point the ebook is ethically/morally pirated?
One person evidently wanted bragging rights on how many books he had in his library and said he download a lot of pirated ebooks, but never read the majority of them. So, is the reading of the book the pirating, or the downloading.
Another said that when trying new authors, she downloaded pirated copies, read part of them to assure herself it was enjoyable, trashed those she didn’t like and bought those she did like. So is this piracy? (Regardless of whether she had no library with copies, nor Amazon with excerpts, nor a local bookstore that she could peruse, begs the question – also of whether she actually bought the copy when she said she did.)
So is it pirated at the moment of downloading, or at the moment of reading (as I think someone on here implied)?
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1) Is breaking into a store and not staling something a crime? Yes it is although it is considered breaking and entering and not stealing.
2) Same thing. Breaking into a bookstore to browse after hours so you can come back later and buy the books you like is still a crime.
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