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Originally Posted by starrigger
You're reading a lot into my posts that I didn't put there.
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You said you didn't talk about the pirates in particular but you actually started the thread talking about pirates in particular. If you were talking about the sites, or about the people that are running the sites, you should have been more clear about it, especially since you consider yourself a writer.
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Originally Posted by starrigger
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?
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ap·pro·pri·a·tion
noun /əˌprōprēˈāSHən/
appropriations, plural
1. The action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission
2. The artistic practice or technique of reworking images from well-known paintings, photographs, etc., in one's own work
3. A sum of money or total of assets devoted to a special purpose
None of the definitions match the case. The person who digitized your novel actually bought the book from you, and didn't say that the novel was their work.
And the reason why I asked about it was this: you kept talking about how bad pirates are for distributing work that isn't theirs, but at least they aren't making a profit off it, the way you are.