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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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I disagree with you, although I do agree with the next line:
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The idea that having bought the paper book should somehow "let you off" paying for the eBook I find somewhat bizarre, personally.
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(I would like to emphesize that we are speaking about moral issues not legality atm)
If at the moment of buying a person had a choice to buy ebook or pbook and this person has chosen pbook - there is
no excuse for downloading ebook from darknet.
IMHO.
However, if at the time of purchasing there was
no choice and a person who could download the ebook from the darknet for free, bought the pbook anyway, there is
no moral issue if the person refuses to buy ebook in a some distant future.
Just because whoever published the book was being stubborn and stupid and refused to accept the reality of modern world it would not mean that customers should be ripped off. Mind you, we are speaking about right now. It is not about a book that was published 15-20 years ago when there was no such thing as ebook. It is about now when someone is being plain stupid or lets be more PC and say shortsighted. Though the reality of business is quite simple. Either you are being smart and you know what your customers need and you succeed otherwise..... your fail. Businessworld is an unforgiveable beast.