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Old 02-19-2010, 02:48 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by delphidb96 View Post
However, if I don't own a dead-tree copy of a novel and the novel is available for sale as an ebook and I choose instead to download it from the dark-net sites, or scan it in from a library book, it's much more similar to me going into a bookstore or supermarket and shoplifting a paperback version. Would you call that 'copyright infringement'? No, you'd call that theft. Misdemeanor theft to be sure, but still, theft.
Just to be clear, I wouldn't go to the darknets for a book that was on sale as an ebook for which I didn't own a dead tree copy ...

... but this is still not theft. It's making an unauthorised copy. In my view, it's wrong in this case, because the book has been made available and the author has not yet been paid. But it still isn't theft - that's simply the wrong word for what is going on.
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