Twisp, the point is that the books are out of print and the publisher has not chosen to make them available as an ebook. I feel I am morally in the clear by buying used hard copies of all of the books I downloaded the ebook files on. It is no different than buying a CD and transferring songs to your mp3 player to enjoy it in a different medium. I have legally purchased the books.
Legally, you are still infringing on his copyright. It makes no difference if he offers them in ebook format or not. That is his choice, as creator. Buying the books or planning to buy the books makes no difference either. It does not cover up or make the original copyright infringement null.
It is very different than buying a cd and ripping the songs. In that instance, you bought the product first, and then did with your purchase product as you wished.
In this instance, you infringed on the author's copyright first, and are trying to make up for it by buying the actual product at a later date.
Now, if you had purchased the book first and then scanned the pages onto your computer to make an ebook, that would be the same as buying a cd and then transferring the music off of it.
Well CC1 I think you're probably going to hell! Just ask Elder Epley! lol j/k
I wonder if all of those who are condemning you are "clean as a baby's butt" on all of their downloads. I doubt it! :foot tap (What's wrong with all of the smilies? I didn't want the words foot tap, I wanted the foot tapping!)
Been Thinkin
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"From the time you're born, 'til you ride in the hearse, there ain't nothing bad that couldn't be worse!"
LIFE: Some days you're the dog and some days you're the hydrant!
I have ... Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia! The fear of long words.
"Prediction is very hard, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave in reflection." - Thomas Paine
Well CC1 I think you're probably going to hell! Just ask Elder Epley! lol j/k
I wonder if all of those who are condemning you are "clean as a baby's butt" on all of their downloads. I doubt it! :foot tap (What's wrong with all of the smilies? I didn't want the words foot tap, I wanted the foot tapping!)
Been Thinkin
Ya, I still have a few hundred tracks that I 'acquired' during Napster's original heyday. But... I am really making use of Amazon's DRM-free MP3 downloads.
Ya, I still have a few hundred tracks that I 'acquired' during Napster's original heyday. But... I am really making use of Amazon's DRM-free MP3 downloads.
Have you repented? I think that still works! Ask Elder Epley lol j/k
Been Thinkin
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"From the time you're born, 'til you ride in the hearse, there ain't nothing bad that couldn't be worse!"
LIFE: Some days you're the dog and some days you're the hydrant!
I have ... Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia! The fear of long words.
"Prediction is very hard, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave in reflection." - Thomas Paine
Well CC1 I think you're probably going to hell! Just ask Elder Epley! lol j/k
I wonder if all of those who are condemning you are "clean as a baby's butt" on all of their downloads. I doubt it! (What's wrong with all of the smilies? I didn't want the words foot tap, I wanted the foot tapping!)
Well CC1 I think you're probably going to hell! Just ask Elder Epley! lol j/k
I wonder if all of those who are condemning you are "clean as a baby's butt" on all of their downloads. I doubt it! :foot tap (What's wrong with all of the smilies? I didn't want the words foot tap, I wanted the foot tapping!)
Been Thinkin
Well, Timmy and I are the only one that said it was legally wrong, but we prefaced that by saying we were not commenting on the morality of it, so we should be good. And if you read my first post on this, I pretty much said I do it as well.
I think we all have our own personal morals, so it is hard to critique morality. I certainly don't want anyone commenting on my morals (or lack thereof, lol). It is not as hard to critique legality.
I actually wasn't looking for approval or disapproval in this thread as I have already come to my conclusion but I was curious as to others views on this and was hoping folks would join in with examples of very different situations where they handled an ethical or moral matter in an unusual way.
The first part happened as some of you have shared your opinion of the scenario I posted about. Now some of you need to broaden it to other situatons!
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
(What's wrong with all of the smilies? I didn't want the words foot tap, I wanted the foot tapping!)
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