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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 4678973" data-attributes="member: 37277">From what I understand (and just looked up at copyright.gov), you can transfer formats of media so that you can use said product on various devices in your house.  Specifically CD to MP3 was mentioned as being legal, so long as it all remains in your sole possession.  Whether books are covered or not explicitly, the implicit reasoning says that you could print out a PDF and store the hardcopy on your shelf (for when you go off the grid), or you could personally transfer the medium from the book to your computer (say, by scanning), but under law you cannot receive a product, even if you own it in another form, if that form was obtained or distributed illegally.Owning a pdf of the PHB that you downloaded from Mininova, even if you own the hard copy, is technically illegal.</blockquote>