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Originally Posted by DNSB
Could you explain to me how purchasing an ebook from Kobo and converting it to read on my Kindle or vice versa keeps the compensation due to the publisher and/or author (in many cases these days, the author is the publisher) from being paid.
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Also very easy. If you read on two different types of devices (e.g. Kindle and Kobo), you need two different files - thus two licenses. And if you only bought one, then you withhold the amount for the second.
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Your attempt to conflate legally purchasing an ebook and format conversion as being equivalent to pirating ebooks is at best risible and at worst suggestive of an inability to reason.
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Simply by removing DRM for whatever reason, redistribution is made possible.
And that is against the law, at least in the EU, and also punishable.
In addition, any change to the file is a violation of copyright law and a conversion from xxx to yyy means a file change.
And even if it isn't discovered, it doesn't change the facts.