Thread: Is pirating a book that you already own ethical? Yes says NY Times Columnist.
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Old 04-08-2010, 03:17 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by Jadon View Post
The first example never mentioned uploading, only downloading. Yes, for torrents and some other varieties of p2p, downloading implies uploading (or at least 'making available'), but for usenet, or RapidShare, or other ways of getting a file, no uploading is necessary, so it doesn't have to enter into ethical consideration.
I'm not sure the ethical considerations are that different, though the legal ones may be.
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