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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Now you are going back to a time when the only way that a normal person, who didn't own a printing press, could copy a book was by writing the text by hand. If you do that with your ebook today and distribute it to a couple of friends I am sure nobody will object  |
Minor point - the printing press predates copyright by quite some time.
In general, though, things have changed a bit, and copyright should reflect some sort of societal consensus about how it is implemented.