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Originally Posted by HarryT
Whether you WANT to buy it now is, IMHO, of no importance. If you justified your illegal download of a book at the time on the grounds that you couldn't buy that book legally then you are - to my mind - morally obliged to buy it if it DOES subsequently appear on the legal market. To act otherwise is, to my way of thinking, wrong.
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Yes, but that you are thinking so is not an argument for that it is so. Why do you not have a time factor in your analysis? Why are you incurring some moral debt to do something at a future timepoint when according to you the first action was morally wrong anyway?
And why should you buy the eBook version? Why not send money to the author directly and not bother with a future eBook version? Why are you not morally required according to you to send money directly to the author?