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Originally Posted by HarryT
You don't see any ethical difference between creating your own copy from a legitimately bought book, and accepting one from someone who's giving them out to all and sundry, regardless of whether or not they've bought the book?
Seems like a very different situation to me!
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I think your position - which would otherwise have some moral force - is undermined by how publishers are using DRM. In ethical parlance, the publishers do not have "clean hands."
If the publisher doesn't want me to go to the pirate, then all it has to do is either give me an ecopy when I buy the pcopy, or stop using DRM to prevent me from making an ecopy myself.
It's the publisher's decision to make the ecopy available only from a pirate. I don't make the decision to distribute ecopies in that fashion - the publisher does.