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by jrockway 6109 days ago
It's not a grey area. Buying a book and skimming the boring parts is not illegal.
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natrius 6109 days ago
Making a copy of the book without the boring parts is illegal. This is what I think Instapaper does.
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jrockway 6108 days ago
It's perfectly legal if you do it for your own personal use.
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natrius 6108 days ago
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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jrockway 6107 days ago
HTTP proxies that modify content are legal. How is this not an HTTP proxy?
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Zev 6109 days ago
Thats basically what I thought. Perhaps I should have said "Where you think this is this a grey area."
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