Thread: What are your views on illegal copying?
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Old 02-21-2010, 08:48 AM   #227
Pardoz
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Originally Posted by kazbates View Post
With the exception of your last "newspaper" point, the law clearly defines legal usage.
Unfortunately on e-books it really doesn't. Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum, I think pretty much everybody agrees the laws need to be changed and clarified. Basically at the moment it's perfectly legal and acceptable to "steal" a book (in the sense the word is so often mis-used in these discussions) but only if you do so using 15th century or earlier technology; once you get to late 20th century technology you hit a legal minefield.

And, of course, there's the little problem of separating what is right from what is legal, and people tend to duck across that line a lot in this discussion.
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