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I'm unclear on what's meant by "illegal copying." What's legal and what's not, in regards to digital files and ebooks, is not clear and obvious (or we wouldn't have so much debate about it), and what you mean by "copying" is also not clear.
AFAIK, it's legal for me to copy a book I own for my personal use. I've chopped, scanned & OCR'd several print books that I own. Distributing the copy is not legal, although the legality of sharing--if I have a way to remove my copy at the same time--is untested.
At least one serious category is missing--books that *would* be in the public domain, if PD hadn't been retroactively extended. I feel no guilt for copying or sharing content that was published under laws that indicated it would be freely available for public use by now. (And I believe that those extensions haven't been directly challenged in court, which means that such copying may-or-may-not be illegal.)
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