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Originally Posted by HansTWN
If you have to spend money to get a legal copy, then it does have a monetary value. Besides, everybody has many things nobody would ever want to buy, still they are worth something to you because you like them. And even if you say an ebook has no value for you, it does for the sellers.
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It would only have any value to the sellers if it was for sale. Since there is no second hand market for ebooks, if it is available for sale anywhere it can't be considered "rare".
The argument was that by making an extra copy of something rare, you are somehow devaluing the original item. My point is there is no such thing as a rare ebook, since they are either available or they are not available. And since you cannot sell an ebook second hand, they have no financial value. Therefore you cannot reduce the value of an ebook by copying it.