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Originally Posted by RCR
But for me, the problem is the AVAILABILITY of a particular book. If a book is ONLY available on the dark net, should you simply not get it?
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Personally I wouldn't, but that's just me. It's not for me to say what you should or shouldn't do.
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I recently went to Amazon for a Pbook and it was listed as out of print and unavailable. I then went to the dark net and found an ebook version. What should I do? Ignore it? Or download it?
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What I would do myself is buy it 2nd hand.
http://www.abebooks.com lists the inventory of 10s of thousands of small 2nd hand bookshops. You can find pretty much anything there.
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And if I download it, doesn't that send the message to the publishers that maybe there is a market for an electronic version of a book they are currently not doing anything with?
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I don't know, does it? Do you write to the publisher and say "I have illegally downloaded your book because I can't buy it as a legal e-book?". If you don't,
how do they know that you've downloaded it?
As I say, I'm not going to preach to anyone and say "you shouldn't download stuff illegally". That's a decision we each have to make individually.