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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Why then would anyone think that pirate downloaders would behave any differently? They download books that catch their eye when they browse the eye-patch version of "Deals, Freebies and Resources." Sometimes they read them, sometimes they don't.
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How is that really relevant? If you steal food, but don't eat ALL of it, throw some (or even most) of it out -- are you less a theif?
If someone steals a book, reads it, but they NEVER would have purchased the book. Are they less a theif?
Maybe such a person wasn't ever going to give the content creator money, but HOW does that change the fact that they've stolen the usage of the content creator's product?
There are so MANY legitimately free books -- not to mention the library -- that there is NO excuse for piracy. It's not SOLEY an issue of "does the author lose money".
Whether or not it's truly worth it to the content creators to combat piracy is a different question altogether.
Lee