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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
A "scanned text"? If scanning a work, like a book that has upwards of ten pages, is not labour-intensive and constitutes real work by someone, what does?
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You're looking at it from the back; most people look at it from the front. If you buy a TV, do you care how many people worked how long to make it? Or do you just buy it? If one downloads a scanned book, it doesn't matter if someone else spent hours scanning and OCRing and proofing it. One just downloads it. The downloader, personally, has put no effort into it. It takes one person to scan a book or rip a CD or capture a TV show. The thousands of people who use the output put in no effort.