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Originally Posted by DiamondDave
No matter how insignificant one thinks it is, when you break the rules, whether they're copyrights, DRM, whatever, you're taking food off someone's table. Now, people may think that Apple or Amazon don't need any more money, and they're right, but that's the agreement you enter into when you license their content (you don't actually ever buy anything).
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And note that Amazon gets the mouse's share of the retail, about 30 percent, compared to 70 percent for the author-publisher. You're taking food off the author's table, not Jeff Bezos's. He's perfectly happy in his hot tub.