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Originally Posted by karunaji
Not necessarily. The person who pirates the book but never buys it might create interest in others to buy the book through word of mouth etc.
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I can accept that.
But I can also understand the need to keep the number of people with that particular "job description" at a minimum—or at least an acceptable quota. So I don't feel the general discouragement of such behavior will be particularly contrary to the goals of those who are just looking for new "word of mouth" readers.
In other words... I view "
you probably shouldn't" as less potentially harmful to the industry than "
Go for it, they expect you to anyway" could be if widely adopted.