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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Really? Refraining from jaywalking makes me lonely? Funny... I thought it kept me alive and vital. I know of no one more lonely than a person in an intensive care ward after a car-strike. Except maybe the person in the ground after a car-strike...
That actually might make sense... if we were talking about people who steal to feed their families. But we're talking about ebooks, a product no one needs, no one will starve without, and no one will be denied a room at the inn for being without. But the products can put food on the table for those who write and sell them, and to some degree, they are directly impacted by those stealing their work instead of paying for it.
There is simply no valid rationalization for stealing something no one needs, but a creator can potentially profit from. Which is why the idea of rationalizing a reason for pirating ebooks is morally bankrupt.
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You're still assuming that legality or morality factor into people's decisions. They don't. If something is there it's a simple choice of download it or don't download it. Your job is to either make the paid for content more appealing than the free content, or use your existing powers to have the free content removed. Or you can look at it as free advertising, like a lot of writers do, or think of it the same as you would if someone bought a second hand paperback.