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Originally Posted by Iphinome
They copyright lobby who you seem to be supporting for reasons that are beyond me claim that making your own equivalent and giving it away for free is akin to piracy since it undermines their buisness model of making you pay. A simple analogy would be instillation and use of free water fountains is stealing money from hard working starbucks executives by allowing people to have something, anything to drink without having to pay $8.
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That is not a correct analogy. A suitable analogy would be if you want to go to concert without assigned seats and you copy a friends ticket on your advanced printer rather than buying one. Is that stealing? The organizers have not lost any physical tickets. You may not have gone at all if you had to pay. Exactly the same situation as copying an ebook.
I do believe, however, that we must have the same rights we have with a pbook. But not more, it should always only be one copy in existance at one time.