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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If you see any spoken (or implied) support for piracy on this forum, please report the post to the moderators.
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There is indeed both stated and oblique support for unauthorized file-sharing of ebooks on Mobileread. There are people who've said they have downloaded books they have in physical form, and will continue to do so; there are people who admit ownership of hundreds (thousands, sometimes) of darknetted ebooks; there are people who've said they stripped the DRM off paid books to give a copy to a relative or friend.
What MR doesn't allow is detailed instructions on how to do those things, not discussion about whether or not they're ethical or legal. Support for the ideas is permissible, as frustrating as it is for some authors.
The ebook-community group at Yahoo is, fwiw, very author/publisher-focused and anti-"piracy", which they seem to define as "more than one reader per purchase." Part of what I like about Mobileread is that I can say "I don't think unauthorized sharing of the text of books is the worst thing that can happen to authors, nor do I believe it will cause the collapse of the publishing industries." And in some people's minds, that translates to "support of piracy."