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Originally Posted by HarryT
What makes you think you're doing anything wrong, Alex? I certainly see nothing wrong in your very sensible backup procedures. This thread is actually about the rights or wrongs of giving copies of eBooks to other people. You aren't doing that.
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Yep, it's only wrong because of stupid DRM and related laws.
You won't find many--even staunch copyright supporters--who think what he's doing is wrong. If one buys a file they should be able to put it on all their devices, have a back up they'll be able to restore with no issues etc.
Issues start to arise when you give away copies while keeping your own--and even then some of that is really ok as people were lending paper books before etc. And since most people only read most books once, it doesn't really matter if the OPs mom has a copy and he still has a copy as for most books with most people neither will read it again anyway so there's no lost sell.
So really it's only an issue when a person is uploading the files to the darknets, or giving it to a ton of people they know vs. letting a few close friends have it (like they let a few people borrow a paper book in turn in the past) etc.