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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
No, I don't call them that - but I think so of them, because almost everyone who writes here defends their view of theft.
Because the damage they cause is, in my opinion, much higher than that caused by pirate servers, which in my opinion are not visited by many, simply because they don't know.
To make it clear again: Every paper book has to be bought and paid for - this corresponds to every license for a file that may not be changed, i.e. it may only be read on the devices approved for it.
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What is the damage they cause? Not hypothetical damage, but real damage. You still haven't answered that. The part about paying the author for every device you read their book on is pure hogwash. Yes, it's against the law to format shift, but it's not theft. The author was paid for their book.
Your idea of format shift=theft might have some value if the price for the ebook license was, say, 1€. Then one might claim that you steal from the author if you don't pay them every time you copy the file to a new device. But an ebook license usually has the same price as the paper copy. More so, in some cases. So it's ridiculous to say that not buying an ebook twice or thrice over is theft. You could also say that you steal from the author every time you move your paper books to a new location, or share them with other people. Yes, legally it's not the same, but in reality it is, in most cases.