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Originally Posted by glop glop
Now let me stop you right there, such an unqualified statement is obviously false. When talking about what is legal and what is not you cannot make such a general and blanket statement saying that all downloading of copyrighted material is illegal since we all here as eReader owners know that is simply not the case.
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I (mistakenly) assumed that you would realise that I was referring to illegal material, such as that which is available on BitTorrent sites, Usenet newsgroups, etc. Clearly it is legal to download copyrighted material with the permission of the copyright holder, such as an item one has just bought from a web site, the books one can download from Baen's free library, etc etc.
Let me rephrase it. It is illegal to download copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder, whether that permission is implied or explicit.
It is absolutely illegal to download material such as, for example, "Harry Potter" books from Usenet, etc, regardless of whether or not one has bought the paper book.