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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by lrvick on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:01PM (#37945445)
So libraries are unethical too? Borrowing a paper book from friends?
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Re:It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM by myaccountonhn on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:53AM (#37954140)
Libraries get the books from distributors and have licenses for lending them. I’d say that is perfectly ethical.

In my country, you have a legal right to share copies to close friends. I think that’s ethical, but I don’t think it’s ethical when people mass download someone’s work without paying them when they were charging for it.

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