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Free publicity? Sorry. It's theft. If the author and publisher wanted free publicity then they can decide to do that - not you. Yesterday I was looking for a particular highly regarded calculus text and instead of searching all the possible legal vendors of ebooks I went to Google where I was shown an incredibly long list of sites that had illegal copies available. So I reran the search to exclude hits with "torrent" on the page to see if there were legit vendors. I clicked on the top hit and an illegal pdf file of the book was on my desktop. A highly regarded and monumental work that is the result of years of effort was sitting on my PC almost by accident. I find this very sad and I would seriously like to hurt those who make it this easy.
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