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Originally Posted by GhostHawk
This is where it starts getting really interesting.
Such as a book being in public domain in Canada, but not in the US.
Wrong? Right? Moral? Immoral?
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Who knows? Certainly not me. All I was trying to do in my initial post was say that in most cases it is easy to decide if some thing is illegal or not. Once we start getting into whether something is right or wrong we will get a gazillion different opinions based and not find a lot of common ground. But, if you want to discuss it further, we should meet for beer somewhere - it will take a while though
I happen to agree with the following and think that this the "right" way to do it:
If you purchase a book (physical or otherwise) you should be able to, at your own expense, make a back up copy of it for your own use that you cannot distribute.
You should be able to loan the original out to whoever you want to.
You should be able to give away or sell the original also with the understanding that you remove any copies of it you might have.
I am against DRM as I think it limits what you, the owner of the item, can do with it.