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Originally Posted by Joykins
you may not know you're getting a pirate copy at Amazon but you darn well know it if you are getting it from downloadbooksforfreefrompirates.com (I made that URL up but there are plenty sort of like it). And as far as I know, not a whole lot legal is torrented except by accident--legal stuff is more simply obtained and often of better quality. |
lol! "You Go Guuurl". All this smokescreen about folks not knowing they are stealing is just hogwash. Folks steal all the time when they think that nobody sees them and they can get away with it.
My own daughter had pirated music that I questioned her about. "It's free". Free?! Really?! You thought all this name brand, popular music that's sold in stores is "free on the internet".?
I wasn't upset that she pirated some music. I was upset that she would rather claim to be an idiot than fess up to stealing.
And one MIGHT be inclined to believe an 13yr old honor student is, in fact, really an idiot -- but the folks 35 and over surely are not.
All the rest of the copyright stuff is valid for sure. But the MAIN force in action is obvious. If you can take something with nobody seeing you take it, with no chance of getting caught, and HECK you are only taking a copy anyway -- then folks do it.
It's like trying to make the abortion debate about "what about the girls who's daddy's raped them" instead of "is abortion murder or not".
Lee