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Originally Posted by p3aul
OK supposing you have a hardback copy John Sandford's latest thriller. Now you are going backpacking in the wilderness and want something expendable to take along.Do you have a choice? Make an illegal paperback(assuming you could) or buy a paperback. Copyright laws say you must buy the paperback. Why? Is it just because the "greedy ole publishers" want more money, or is it just because that's the way capitalism works? You do have a choice. you can buy the paperback and give the author a few cents in royalties or you can choose to do without if you want to obey the law.Try the doing without. It builds character. But I'm missing the point! What you are trying to say is you want to change the law! That very admirable and the democratic way of doing things. Write all the congressmen you know and make your complaints known. It's a slow process but it is the way our forefathers designed it. In the meantime, don't encourage others to break the law! Pay your dime and wait for the laws to be changed. The system works!
Paul
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Actually forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't format shifting legal in the US? If not in other countries?
I'm sure I've seen it mentioned that it's legal in the US to scan in and ocr a book for your own use. Although I know it IS illegal in other countries.
Regardless even in other countries it's a civil offense and not a criminal one. No government would have any interest in gong after someone format shifting for their own personal use.
Oh and by the way waiting for the law to change doesn't always work. Just look at the black civil rights movements of the 50s or the suffragette movements that helped to give women the right to vote. Sometimes the only way to bring attention to unjust laws and get them changed is to break them.