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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Those who illegally put somehow modified (e.g. DRM removed) ebooks on the Internet, anywhere, are thieves in my eyes.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I do you consider someone who puts DRM free (Tor, Baen, Star Trek, Smashwords, etc) eBooks that are in copyright to be a thief?
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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Does the publisher or the involved get the due payment?
If yes, then it is correct - if no, then something is wrong.
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@ottischwenk: Please read your words in the first quote above. You require modified (DRM removed) books to qualify as being stolen. Which would imply that books that are copyrighted but do not have hard DRM such as Adobe's ADEPT or Amazon's Kindle DRM but rather have no DRM or soft DRM (watermarks, etc.) are fair game since they can be uploaded unmodified.
It would appear that in your eyes the only person in this world who is not a thief is
Humpty Dumpty ottischwenk.
I wonder if you remember who wrote these words regarding his habit of removing DRM: "Weil ich zu faul bin, mir das Ende der Leihfrist zu merken und mir ist egal," or "Because I'm too lazy to remember the end of the loan period and I don't care" and "da kommen aber alle Bücher automatisch nach Calibre und DRM wird entfernt" or "but all books come automatically to calibre and DRM is removed".
Does that sound like the writing of someone you might know?