[crich70]

Lady Fitzgerald and Ankh both made some good points about my last posting. The point I was trying to make though was that not everyone would realize, think about, or consider that when downloading a book. They would probably figure 'it's a classic book, in public domain so I can do what I want with it, even if publisher x is selling it for 4.99 (or whatever price the publisher assigns it)'. A lot of people don't consider the moral or legal stuff connected with an older book when it's free one place and charged for at another. Plus there is the anon. factor of the web. People wouldn't go into their local bookstore and try to walk out with a 'free' copy of a book classic or not, but when it's just electronic data moving about from one computer to another we tend to not think of it as something that could hurt others in any way. I mean when someone downloads books via a torrent they're not hacking into someones computer system. The data is right out in plain sight for anyone to aquire. And part of that accessibility is what leads to piracy I think.