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Originally Posted by HarryT
And do you believe this to be the case? I don't, any more than I believe that anyone who downloads an illegal eBook would have bought it. My objection to the latter is not primarily lost sales, but the principle of committing a crime.
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No, of course I don't believe that to be the case. <G> I also do not believe that e-book piracy is responsible for huge losses to publishers. And you don't believe so, either. So, EVEN THOUGH a crime- copyright infringement- is being committed when someone downloads a pirated e-book, it seems both of us are in agreement that a large amount of sales are not being lost by the publisher.
Right now, I am having a hard time understanding the heated passion exhibited in this thread. Okay, copyright infringement is a crime, it's bad, bad, bad, BUT- it is not resulting in lost sales (or at least both of us agree on this). By not resulting in loss of sales to the publisher, who is this crime actually hurting?
I guess "ethical piracy" would involve hardback purchase of a work by a library that then converts to e-format and uploads to the "DarkNet." <G>