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Originally Posted by mrkai
All of the moralizing is beyond tiring at this point.
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I'm sorry it distresses you, but I don't think it can be helped. I think it would be difficult to discuss a question that is, at its heart, a moral and ethical question without raising points of morality or ethics. The poll, as posed, is an ethical dilemma, is it not?
If we're not discussing whether or not someone
should download pirated e-books and we're not discussing whether or not someone is
allowed to download pirated e-books, then I've clearly missed the point of the whole thread.
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Originally Posted by mrkai
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.
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I can see your point, but I'm not sure what else to call the darknet e-books. Something like "copyright-infringing e-books" or "e-books made without the consent of the rights holder" would be ungainly. "Illegal e-books" would be even more loaded and quite possibly inaccurate. Would "unauthorized e-books" work?
Pirated at least has the benefit of being commonly understood, since it's used for everything from knock-off NFL jerseys to bogus Louis Vuitton purses to camcordered-in-the-theater movies, but I suppose
unauthorized would work as well, even though it's somewhat obfuscating.