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Old 03-31-2009, 09:38 AM   #77
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Totally agree. It is pure sophistry to try to pretend that taking away an author's income is anything other than theft, regardless of what the law might choose to call it.
I agree when it is knowingly done, ie. copying a book and then selling said copy to others, giving it to twenty friends as a Christmas present, etc. However, in the DRM world, buying a book from a legal distributor and then converting it for use on a device that would not have been able to use the original format is also illegal (here in the US at least). Does that make the person a pirate?

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