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Originally Posted by DeusExMe
However, suppose the person owned a physical copy of a book and desired the book in Electronic format. In that case, is it ethical for the person to download the electronic text without purchasing it?
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Well ...
When I was a little kid parents, teachers and everybody else has been explaining to me how appropriate, befitting, chaste, correct, decorous, ethical, fitting, good, honest, honorable, immaculate, mannerly, moral, nice, noble, proper, pure, right, seemly, suitable, virtuous and worthy it is to go to the library and borrow (AND read!) a book is.
It is so confusing ...
First they teach you that borrowing a book from a friend or a library is the most virtuous thing ...
... and then you find out that if you use internet to "borrow" a book you are a person that commits robery and/or murder on open sea (pirate).
Please remember that in most jurisdictions it is not illegal to download a copyrighted book. Uploading (or sharing) is illegal.