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Old 12-09-2007, 11:10 AM   #181
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Let's take a real world example that we can all relate to. Let's say I bought a copy of the Harry Potter #7. Then I download an ebook copy after that. Now I have a legal pbook and an illegal ebook. But there is no legal ebook. Has anyone lost any revenue for my reading the ebook considering I have the pbook?
Having the pbook is not relevant to having taken an illegally-created e-book.

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I could have downloaded the ebook without bothering to purchase the pbook.
And you would have done so illegally.

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Now, who's pocket did I just deprive of any revenue? Nobody.
You're just evading the issue. The issue is, the e-book is illegally created. You shouldn't be getting from anyone, except JKR.

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I even added to it by the purchase of the pbook.
The only legal thing you've done in this scenario!

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...But in the meanwhile, having the illegal ebook hurts nobody.
Well, since you want to argue the case in an abstract way, you could say that because of your piracy, the legitimate author decides not to release their books as e-books, thereby depriving them of what legitimate sales they might have gotten. So you have hurt their earning potential. Congratulations: Your actions just kept someone's kids out of college!

Abstractly speaking, of course.

Once again, my point is the fact that, if the e-book is illegally obtained, it is not your right to have. For any reason.
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