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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
I think your bias is showing. How is vivaldirules "browbeating" anyone? It was a single, simple statement, and a factual one, at that. Two of the choices, answered by 29 respondents, as of this writing, selected an answer that included downloading e-books from the darknet. That pretty much translates to "comfortable with the idea of downloading pirated ebooks".
While I don't agree with the conclusion being drawn, I certainly wouldn't characterize pointing it out as "browbeating".
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Whatever.
All of the moralizing is beyond tiring at this point.
"I want an option that gets the author paid and the product i want. I am not willing to rip off the author, so I will buy a copy of the book" only equates to, as he put it "Mobile Read - Come here to learn how to read your pirated ebooks on the fly!" and "That would suggest that some (many?) who come here do so at least in part to learn how to use Sony Readers, Amazon Kindles, their mobile phones, etc. to convert and read their pirated ebooks on these devices."
To me, me being
Kai, the use of the words "pirate/pirated" has a sh*tty connotation that these PARTICULAR PEOPLE specifically, and the general membership here don't deserve, because they aren't stealing from the authors or the publishers.
Pirates buy NOTHING. They pay for NOTHING. They do not give a damn if anyone gets paid or not. It's what they do; it's how they roll.
And before ANYONE rolls a conclusion from the above, my Sony reader has PD books and political documents on it (like the constitution), fanfiction and exactly ONE paid for book (sigh...connect) which is "I Am America (And So Can You)" and NOTHING ELSE commercial.
Like someone else said...it must be wonderful to have such a fully developed unwaivering sense of right and wrong. I envy those that know everything about everything and how all cases are clear.
And ANOTHER thing. I think, for the benefit of people that do NOT live in the US or UK or wherever, the whole "legality" vein is disrespectful to people that don't live in either of these two places. As people have pointed out time and time again, laws are different in different countries and many of these discussions seem to take US and UK law as some sort of moral high ground...and that's not right either.
Anyone that would make a choice, a personal choice on a personal level to do what it takes to put money in the pocket of the author of a book should not be treated in the cavalier way many folks like vivaldirules does.
Given the options before them, they don't HAVE to do this. They choose to. they shouldn't browbeaten (yeah i said it again) for making a moral choice that puts money in the pockets of authors they support.