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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
But stealing books *hurts people.* It's hurts authors, it hurts editors, and it hurts many other people who *worked* to produce the book. You can pretend that stealing books is a "philosophy," but in reality it is an *activity* that hurts *real people,* with lives and such. That's what I (and others) are critical of, and why complaints that you are being "judged" don't have much traction.
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By "stealing", I'm assuming you mean copyright violating, but the above is not a fact it is just your opinion. I'm not sure what assumptions you are making to come to that opinion, but every writer who has looked beyond "Oh no someone downloaded my book I must be losing $10billion" has come to the conclusion that unauthorised downloading has either had no affect on their sales at all, or they have seen an increase in sales since the unauthorised copy became available.