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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
1. There's a book you'd like to read or some music you'd like to listen to, but you don't want to pay anyone who actually worked to produce it. So you take it.
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I don't know if you were being deliberately obtuse or it came naturally, but I was clearly talking about why people
provide pirated files-- why they take the time and effort to break the DRM (including coding new DRM breakers) or take the time to scan, OCR, and edit a book (or the time to do things like create fansubs for foreign media.) Those people aren't being paid one red cent for doing that-- in fact, they are spending their own time and money on working on it, and sometimes even pay for bandwidth to host it. So, yes, my point stands that for the people who
provide pirated material, it isn't about making money because
no money is made.