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Originally Posted by phenomshel
And what about this scenario? I want a book in ebook format. The book is not available in electronic format, anywhere. So, I buy a physical copy of the book, scan it (destroying it in the process), OCR it, and make my own ebook. I bought one copy of the book, I now own one copy of the book. Legal? Probably not. But the author and publisher got their money for one copy of the book, which is what I now own, albeit in a different format than the one I purchased.
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Though I am not a lawyer, as I understand it the Supreme Court decision in
RIAA vs. Diamond Multimedia held that consumers have the right to "space shift" their purchases to different media. Though the specific example to which it applies is ripping CDs to MP3s, that shouldn't be different in principle to "ripping" paper books to e-books.