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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
E-books do not disintegrate, and that is a useful improvement due to technology. So one should have access to it in perpetuity.
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But the storage medium disintegrates over time. Almost nothing lasts forever except maybe non-radioactive isotops of noble gases under normal conditions, they are just chemically inert.
Plus there may come a time when another file format is preferred for e-books and old file formats like epub may not be read by then modern software.
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Originally Posted by Readirect
EXCEPT what you are doing is not stealing because you have already paid everyone involved.
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Even if you paid for a e-book once you are not doing something legal if you download it from some shady website, depending on where you live. Maybe somewhere it may be equal to a "private copy", although you are not copying the file you bought...but IANAL and every state may have different copyright laws.