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First of all, I would like to apologize for my answer,
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Yes, I was investigated because a book I bought with soft DRM was found on the internet. The investigation was dropped, - because no DRM removal software was found on any of my devices. - and I reported the loss or theft of a reader on which I had such books to the police - for exactly this reason By the way, I have been a DRM fan since that experience. But I have already written all this earlier. Quote:
Thinking about it for a moment would have been enough.Oh no, I thanked for "here". Edit: I have now looked at it and can only say: very modest. I can find more interesting things for me in our lending libraries. Quote:
Edit: is PG Proje(c|k)t Gutenberg? If Yes, then I can give you the answer: "Project Gutenberg" is of no interest to someone who is not looking for English books - so only then will they look there. Many of these books are from "Projekt Gutenberg - de" which can only be read online - downloaded and converted to epub and Kindle versions. Further, I estimate that more of them came from users who have scanned their books, put them in text and mostly in epub/azw form so that they can be read in both systems without problems. Last edited by ottischwenk; 06-07-2021 at 04:36 AM. |
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EU cannot create laws - parliament has only advisory function. The laws are created by the individual member states for their nationals. Thus, your link, which is based on a faulty translation, has for me exactly the value 0. |
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You can deny as much as you want, but that doesn't change the fact that you download illegal ebooks without paying the author or publisher and that makes you a thief in many people's eyes, no matter the technicalities. |
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a) because there are almost only those with leather and gold edges in my library - I don't know any such from current authors. b) and in my eyes everyone who uses DRM for any reason is one who: - violates the law existing in cultural states: - the EBook distributor, - the publisher, - and therefore also the author harms. And now the exciting question: how do you describe such a damaging action? I call it theft. |
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06-07-2021, 12:11 PM | #68 |
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06-07-2021, 01:24 PM | #70 |
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However, those who scan public domain paper books, put them into ebook form and make them available are acting completely legally and also admirably. Such users also use well-known pirate sites to make their work available to others. And to answer your question: there are not only pirates on pirate sites. |
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In my opinion, there should be much more legal content than pirate loot. |
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