Thread: Ethics and legalities of format shifting
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Old 01-05-2021, 01:24 PM   #298
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There is a YouTube video of it.

Video is even easier now.

Streaming content is trivial.

But yes, the Advance Review Copies (ARCs) on paper are pirated and made into ebooks. Certainly for the popular authors.

It's not winning the Booker or a Hugo that tells you that you are famous, but quality ebooks out before the publisher releases one.
The last Harry Potter book was famously available on the darknet as an ebook before the hardback was released.
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