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Originally Posted by wyndslash
i don't get that reasoning. why would you pay for a book, then turn around and upload it so everyone else can get it for free?
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Think of the internet piracy scene as like a
potluck dinner. You're willing to bring a few 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew Code Red because you know someone else will bring a bucket of KFC (okay, that's
my kind of a potluck dinner.)
It is like any other community-based internet project-- why contribute time to producing Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia or MobileRead libary data? Piracy groups are very little different than that in ideals or in motives-- the only thing different is that they are willing to overlook certain rules.
You are able to find files for free, but-- sometimes-- when you
can't find a pirate version, you "take one for the team" and buy and contribute it yourself. Or even scan and OCR it yourself, if there is no digital version.
(Not that
I would ever do that, says the owner of a Opticbook 3600.)