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Originally Posted by Shopaholic
File sharing is stealing. You're splitting hairs and saying simply because the 'sharer' isn't charging it's not piracy. Those unpaid for copies given out are pirated/stolen/illegal books. Same diff only no funds have changed hands. It doesn't negate the fact that unpaid for copies are floating around. The act of distributing, or what you & others call sharing, unpaid for works is still piracy.
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Three things:
1. Nobody was talking about "pirated" books here but you. The .mobi format (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobipocket) is perfectly legitimate (in fact, it is currently owned by Amazon) and there are much more than 12,000 titles available legally and for free in all kinds of different formats today. That that may not include "every author imaginable" doesn't mean a thing - it's just a figure of speech. Perhaps you should watch yourself a bit with the unsubstantiated knee-jerk accusations.
2. This is not the right forum for this discussion, most certainly not the right thread. The OP asked a concrete question and everyone but you has tried to answer them. What you are doing right now is, as they say in the "business", effectively derailing the thread.
3. However, since you're already at it: Could you tell me where one might pick up a copy of that "Introduction to the Naive Affirmation of Capitalist Exchange" that you seem to be quoting from?