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Originally Posted by hogleg
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 doesn'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.
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Someone offers an ebook for download. es that is illegal. But, I have the choice to download it or not. if I choose to, I'm guilty as well. But if nobody is downloading then nobody is losing any money as this ebook is not getting copied beyond the copy available for download. A lot of the ebooks that you find on the darknet are there because the publishers don't see fit to actually produce enough ebooks. The publishers could cut down the piracy by making more books available. And pricing needs to be sorted as well. I understand the difference between paperback and hardcover. There is a cost difference to actually produce each version. But an ebook costs exactly the same to make no matter the container of the pbook. That is where the publishers don't get it. We look at a hardcover and know it costs more because of the container. We look at an ebook priced like a hardcover and see the container does not warrant the cost. They need to get their heads out of their asses and make ebooks priced reasonably. Imagine $7 for an ebook when the ebook in in hardcover and then $4 when the ebook is in paperback. That would make it a lot harder for people to justify a crappy scanned copy with lots of errors.