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Re:A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase: Instapaper by natrius on Monday September 21, 2009 @02:10AM (#834086)
Making a copy of the book without the boring parts is illegal. This is what I think Instapaper does.
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Re:A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase: Instapaper by jrockway on Monday September 21, 2009 @09:24AM (#834526)
It's perfectly legal if you do it for your own personal use.
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Re:A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase: Instapaper by natrius on Monday September 21, 2009 @11:10AM (#834726)
Instapaper does it for commercial use. If the iPhone app does it client side, then it is probably legal. If it's server side, probably not.
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Re:A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase: Instapaper by jrockway on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @10:36AM (#837037)
HTTP proxies that modify content are legal. How is this not an HTTP proxy?
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