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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
Personally, I think that grabbing books off the darknet is unethical if you're depriving the legitimate copyright holder of a sale. That's difficult to do if the book is out of print.
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Bingo!
The purpose of the copyright law is to make more books available by increasing the likelihood that people who write books will make money doing so. A writer who does not offer his book for sale violates the intended functioning of the law, so he lacks any moral basis for asserting any rights granted by the law.