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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Mobileread rules prevent me from saying properly what I think of your immoral behaviour in sending money to people who give away other people's work and solicit money for doing so.
If you are in a position in which really you cannot pay for ebooks, either though lack of funds, or because they are simply unavailable, I can understand why you might feel it reasonable to obtain them in other ways.
But to have money to spend on ebooks and then to spend it in such a way that none of it goes to the people who created the books you enjoy is unconscionable.
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True, but it also disproves the theory that people who download unauthorised content will not pay for that content. As well as donations to sites like that, people also pay for premium usenet access, faster (and ulimited) download slots from Rapidshare, and are also almost certainly paying a premium for faster than they need internet access.
If ebooks were priced as the disposable files that they are, or if publishers had a subscription service where you could download as many as you want, how much of that money that is currently going to pirate sites would end up in the hands of writers instead?