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Originally Posted by seagull
I own paper books. I would like those paper books on my e-reader. I could of course scan and OCR them but it's a process that I could skip by torrenting them, and achieve the same end product. Obviously the uploader has committed an illegal activity by uploading copyrighted work without the permission of the copyright holder. What about me? Should have I repurchased the titles? What if those titles are as of yet unavailable in eBook format?
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Two things which may or may not be relevant to you:
1) In my country, I can legally download copyrighted work under certain conditions, regardless of whether I actually own the original version. I pay for this privilege in form of extra "tax" on CDs, CD writers, copiers, hard disks etc.
2) It has been my experience that if I want a quality end-product, it is usually much less work to do it all (scan it, OCR it, proof-read it) than to download it (or, sadly, buy it) and "just proof-read it". Exceptions exist, of course.