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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
You didn't complain about the pirates, particularly, until I asked you what you thought? I wonder where I got the idea that you were talking about the people and not the sites (in bold):
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Communication would be easier if you wouldn't refer to the torrent sites as pirates, people and individuals.
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You're reading a lot into my posts that I didn't put there. I reported how the E-reads founder felt about pirates. I reported what I thought was the ethical status of taking other people's copyrighted work and putting it up for the world. I also noted that I don't worry all that much about it. It is true that I was careless about distinguishing between the people who operate pirate sites (Pirate Bay, anyone?) and those who upload books to them. So let me clarify that the people I have expressed negative opinions about are primarily those who operate sites promoting this activity, and I suspect in many cases making a nice profit from it.
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Also, I didn't ask your opinion on pirates, but your moral view on the fact that you used somebody's work to make a profit.
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Let's be clear, shall we? Their "work" was an illegal appropriation of my copyrighted novel. I have no moral objection to using their digitization. Do you? As I noted earlier, I gave a nod of thanks to the unknown persons, because they took care to do a good job, even as they were appropriating my work. Nevertheless, they scanned and uploaded my creative work without permission. What do you think I owe them?