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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
If someone goes online and downloads an album that they didn't pay for (either for the mp3s or a CD) they aren't making a copy. They're stealing.
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Here we go again. Legally, no. You want to use the term, but I don't think it's appropriate.
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If I have a paperback, I don't need an e-book of it.
Some do, like you apparently.
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"apparently"? This sounds like you're saying that this is an excuse, but it is not. I have plenty of books that I've not read yet that I'd like to have electronically, so that I can read them on my reader. Plus a few that I'd like to read again.
I think that we're agreed that this isn't wrong, but I'm not sure that it's always legal.
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But you can't act like that's the majority of people downloading books. Most are getting books they don't own.
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I never acted like that - you're right, I suspect.
Note that I think that it's
wrong to make an unauthorised copy of a book that you could have bought and don't own. All I'm saying is that it isn't
theft.
There is a difficult middle category, of books which you can't buy electronically, but don't own. Perhaps the right thing there would be to take the electronic copy and buy a paper one as a license, thereby turning it into the first category.
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Though again I think it's mostly a minor issue. The majority of people downloading books, albums, movies etc. are NOT downloading copies of stuff they own. They're stealing things the want to own without paying for.
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They're making unauthorised copies, which is wrong in my view - but it's not legally stealing, and for good reason.