Thread: Could the Kindle spark book piracy?
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Old 12-06-2007, 01:53 PM   #20
Alisa
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Would you make any distinction between the "seriousness" of downloading a copy of a book without paying for it, and re-selling multiple copies of that book on eBay for cash?

I mentioned elsewhere that last year someone was selling duplicated CDs of my software on eBay. It wasn't only my software he was selling, it was all sorts of things - Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, etc. In the previous month alone, from his past auction results I could see that he'd made over £2000 ($4000) from his auctions of illegal software.

To my mind, that is serious crime, not petty theft. Would you agree?
I would also add uploaders to that. Just because they're not profiting doesn't mean they're not doing a lot of damage. If I copied your software and put it on a torrent site, you're still out the money. I might even move more units that way than the Ebay guy.
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