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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
If it's cheap enough, why would they bother? Do people routinely rip DVDs they borrow from Netflix?
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I have a friend (cough) who used to have a subscription to Netflix, and she wanted to be able to watch the movies when and how she wanted as well as reduce the amount of time waiting for the next DVD.
So, yes, she would rip the DVD and return it immediately so that she could watch the movie on her iPod at the gym and then have the next movie waiting for her when she was finished with the current one. She would still only watch the movie once and then delete it, so she considered her actions justified, but she fully realized that she was breaking the law in a victimless-sort-of-way. I can see something similar happening with ebooks.