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Originally Posted by ottischwenk

When will you understand?
Nowhere did I recommend downloading illegally pirated books.

I wrote that I downloaded books from pirate sites, but I never wrote which books:
- I have no idea where you could have read that these were deDRMed copyrighted books.
- and to the law you quoted, it says: uploading of such material is forbidden; but it doesn't say anything about downloading.

And if you don't know the difference, it goes in the opposite direction.

And that I could get into trouble, I didn't write that anywhere either.
They supposedly read very fast, but you should rather focus on correctly grasping what you read.

You have criticised and called people thieves for moving ebooks that they have purchased between formats to allow them to use on different devices. But, you seem to think it is OK to download ebooks from Pirate sites that are copyrighted just because you have paper versions of the books. That is illegal in any location that I have heard of as owning a paper version does not give you any other rights.

And you need to read what @DNSB quoted. It is clear that under Austrian law it is illegal to download from pirate sites. Just to quote the bit again:

Additionally, Austrian copyright law requires that the source copy of the download was not obviously (produced or) made available unlawfully (Article 42(5) of the Austrian Copyright Act; see also Q7 and Q15).

Are you claiming that you have access to a pirate site (that's what you called it) that has legally obtained and distributable copies of the books you are downloading? Or are you hiding behind the two words "not obviously"? Are you pretending that as there is nothing saying "These are illegal downloads" that it is "not obvious" that the books are illegally there and that it is OK for you to download them?