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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I find it quite curious and depressing that people can so easily justify behaviours that I think should somehow just be clearly wrong to them. Surely if people thought clearly about it they could see it so.
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Don't be depressed - it is the nature of moral systems.
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I personally could not imagine downloading ebooks (or copying, borrowing, taking, or paying for anything) that was posted by thieves - people who are denying proper payment of the author and publisher for what they are getting. I don't see how pointing out that if you've become particularly fond of ebooks that you'll never read pbooks again is at all relevant. Or that the publisher is rotten. And it seems nutty to me to try to rationalize the act by buying the paperback. Yes, the author and publisher are now getting paid. But you're still using, perhaps encouraging, the theft. I just don't get it.
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Sorry, you've misunderstood me, I guess: I am particularly fond of P-books - not ebooks: for me e-books are simply a way of browsing the literature.
Anyway, I am not rationalizing: I am actually paying for what I think these works are worth - if any. If, as it's often the case, it is junk, I'm not paying, nor I'm asking the author to pay ME for the time I lost reading it ;-)
If I buy a pack of eggs at the supermarket and find they're rotten, I can return them ... try it with a book! Now, the digital system finally allows me to do the same with ebooks.
Anyway, as I told I am perfectly aware that, under most current laws, this is stealing. But, <FOR ME>, ethically it isnt so.
Alessandro