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Originally Posted by wgrimm
Well, let me pose these 2 questions:
1. Am I justified in downloading a "commercial" e-book for free, if I previously owned that e-book in a version for my RocketBook that was broken? Mind you, I paid good money for the original DRMd ebook, and have no recourse with the publisher as they are out of business.
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IMHO, No. That's an equivalent situation to one in which you've bought, say, a paperback version of a book, but are no longer able to read it. Perhaps you lost it, or dropped it in the bath. Are you entitled to a free (or even discounted) replacement? I think most people would say "no".
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2. If I already own the paper book, is the end result- having an electronic version to read- any different whether I create the version myself or download it from the net?
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Certainly it is. Fair use law, from what I've read, allows you to make a backup of
your copy of the book. If you've downloaded it, it's not your copy is it - it's somebody else's. It's like asking if you scratch a CD that you've bought, can you go out and legally copy somebody else's unscratched copy. The answer is clearly, no, you can't.