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Originally Posted by JSWolf
People pirate ebooks because most of the books they pirate are not legally available in electronic form and a lot they pirate that are available were not available when it was put out for download. So if we had more ebooks available, we'd have less piracy.
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I don't buy that. Piracy isn't just downloading books, it's uploading them. When one guy can upload hundreds or even thousands of ebooks for any one to indiscriminately download, it's just as bad. Think he paid for them? How can you justify that? That is like saying there is only theft because money is so hard to get...make money free and you'll eliminate theft.
It's an excuse. Theft is theft, no matter why you did it. I'd accept you saying some thing like this in a thread called "why do you steal eBooks". Ethically, you're wrong for stealing it, no matter why you did, or what you think justifies it. That does't make stealing any more right, it just gives you a reason. As for your point two up. I have less of a problem with you downloading an un DRMed version when you own it than I do with the guy who uploaded it. Its you downloading things which you haven't paid for, or uploading them for other people to do it that bothers me.