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Originally Posted by 6charlong
Something I can't understand in these discussions. Supposing I stole someone's book reader. Why would I want to upload their books to Torrent?
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For the same reason you'd want to share a movie with friends, or offer to loan your music CDs for someone's party: because you thought they'd appreciate it.
The impulse to share art that we like is pretty much a universal human desire. Whether we have a legal or moral right to do so is another matter entirely.
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And if I wanted to download a book from Torrent, why would I want to choose the Harry Potter book with someone else's name stamped on it? I think I'd want one of the older ones that had nothing of the sort attached. It seems foolish to pick one that shouts: Thief!
Never having used Torrent I don't know the answers to these kind of questions
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Imagine two torrent listings: one says "HARRY POTTER EBOOKS" and has:
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERERS STONE.PDF,
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERERS STONE.EPUB
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERERS STONE.MOBI,
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN.PDF,
... and so on. It has books through Deathly Hallows in epub, pdf and mobi format.
Another says "HARRY POTTER EBOOKS COMPLETE SET INCL EXTRAS," and it has:
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter 1 Harry Potter & Sorcerer's Stone.epub
through
J.K. Rowing Harry Potter 7 Harry Potter & Deathly Hallows.epub
and
J.K. Rowing Harry Potter Quidditch Through the Ages.epub
J.K. Rowing Harry Potter Tales of Beedle the Bard.epub
Which one do you take? (Well *you* don't take either. But if you wished to be "safe," which one is better?)
All that can be seen on torrents is filenames, and sometimes, even that's unavailable that because the only file inside the torrent is "Harry Potter ebooks.zip", with no list of contents. Sometimes, the uploader mentions details: "these books were scanned with [device] and are the 3rd version of the proofread files," or "no pics, sorry," or "UK version not US version." But sometimes the only info available is the filename.
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