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Originally Posted by craig8128
I've been a computer geek for several decades now, and while I've never been part of the hacker / cracker culture, I've been exposed to it. And I suspect that the reason you see even your inexpensively priced books in torrents is probably more a matter of "hacker mentality" than because anyone wants to steal your book: someone is getting an egoboost because they're "contributing" a huge archive, or they like having bragging rights about how many books they've "cracked" and uploaded, etc. They all wanna have that "Neo meets Trinity" moment: "oh, you're the one who uploaded 10,000 Science Fiction Classics!"
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That's interesting. So someone bought or borrowed 10,000 books, cracked and uploaded them, just so someone would leave the comment along the lines of "you're the man!".
Now I know what you are going to say: this theoretical egomaniac didn’t spend years doing this, most of them are downloaded and added to the collection. But that just wouldn't fit in with your contribution theory. I mean most people would recognize seeing 9000 of them in other places, and even downloaded most of them, so they just wouldn't care about the new guy who broke the 10,000 files barrier.