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Originally Posted by tompe
Also if it is trivial and no work involved to give ftp access to all the books for example if somebody asks for it then not doing it seems to me to be a restriction in other ethical systems also.
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The amount of work is irrelevant: It is up to the person who uploads the book to decide how
they are going to provide it. The only ethical issue I see here is the question of who controls the uploaders' actions. I don't see the equivalence between not making something easier for someone else and forcing one's will on another.
MobileRead is not restricting what downloaders do, merely limiting how they do it. That's very different ethically than forcing MobileRead to provide bulk downloads.