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Good article. I definitely agree with 'pirate' that the 'loss due to piracy' figures are inflated, but believe that there is some loss (with exceptions such as out of print books). So, the question implied but not really discussed is, how much does a person have to lose before it's considered theft? (In the US there's generally a distinction between petty theft & grand larceny. IMO downloading a pirated ebook would definitely be petty theft-but the piracy itself, i.e. uploading a book to make it available for others to download, could well be grand larceny.)
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