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Originally Posted by kennyc
I don't call it illegal copying, I call it theft because we have to look at things differently in the Digital age.
I don't like the choices very much either. I think the same concepts should apply to digital as to print. If you make a copy for your own uses without giving it away or sharing with others, then all it's fine. If you "distribute" it to someone else, then it's not. It's boils down to an author's (creator's) rights to me.
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NOT if I already own a dead-tree copy and the publisher refuses to release an electronic version. Sorry, but it is my right to make an electronic copy for my personal use. Note that I did NOT say that I have the right to make a copy and distribute it to others.
I, and I think this is true for many e-reader owners, *want* to be able to buy legal e-books that put money in the authors' pockets. And if the publisher fails to make this possible, then it is the publishers who've failed their authors, not me. Making an electronic copy in such situations is not theft, it's merely allowing me to re-read, and enjoy again, an author's work - in a format that I find preferable.
Derek