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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 4679138" data-attributes="member: 37277">Not in my opinion, and it appears to be backed up by the DMCA and copyright laws in general.  I posited the very thing a few posts back.  The law says you can transfer media from one format to another for your own personal use.  But you can't give away the hard copy.  If you do, then you're no longer protected under fair use and are in violation of copyright law.  The question was asked about, so what difference does it make if I download it rather than scan the book myself?  The law is clear on that too.  Transmission of copyrighted material without the copyright owner's consent is violation of copyright law.  So you have a right to own the book in whatever medium you choose, but you don't have the right to illegally obtain said medium just because you own the hard copy.  The law assumes that you don't traffic in illegal goods.  And if you distribute any copy of the book you have, you have to transmit all of them or else destroy any other copy.This is the essence of book returns to the printer and book destruction.  That's why you're not supposed to buy hard cover books that have been marked for destruction (usually a black mark on the top or bottom of the pages) or a paperback with the cover torn off.  Those books were marked for destruction and the publisher considers them destroyed.  Any reselling of those books is in violation of copyright because the author and publisher assume they are not being sold.  Therefore royalties aren't being transmitted up the line, etc.</blockquote>

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