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Originally Posted by issybird
Let me be clear. There are shades of gray, but using ownership of a paper book to justify acquiring a pirate ebook is black. Use your own copy to make the digital book, as I said above. Calling it gray so you can have your cake and eat it, so to speak, is duplicitous.
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I think I would agree, so I'm baffled by US court decision on Google scanning books. Most are borrowed and it's not personal use, it's corporate commercial use to boost their advert sales via search. The scanned copies are on multiple servers and a search will reveal a few pages. I'm sure there could be a way using distributed attack to get all the scanned pages. Google/Alphabet conned the court.
I think it's grey sending the physical book to a 3rd party agency to get it scanned and totally wrong supporting a pirate site to get it.