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Originally Posted by kennyc
I agree. In the first case it really is format shifting for your own use. Whereas in the second it is obtaining what is clearly an illegal copy.
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I agree, too.
And I can see the ethycal difference between making and downloading a copy of a book.
But I believe the flaw is in "illegal" and "copy" rather in "obtaining".
I believe that once you buy the right to access the content of the book (whether buying a paper copy, or just buing a sort of license), you've got right to own as many copies and format you like (provided you pay the copy-making process, of course, whether with money or with labour).
Sometimes it's the Law who's wrong.
