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Originally Posted by epiphany
Does anyone actually benefit commercially from pirated ebooks? I've heard of people selling copied DVDs on the street but I'm yet to encounter anyone passing off illegal ebooks for $$$.
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Yes, absolutely people do. We've had numerous examples here of people buying pirated books. A couple of weeks ago someone said that they'd bought a copy of "Lord of the Rings" from somewhere or other, and, even more blatantly, someone posted a link to a web site a while ago which was selling whole bundles of pirated books for quite significant sums of money. In both cases these were unquestionable pirated books, since no "legal" eBook is available from those authors.
One might argue that no harm is done to anybody in creating an eBook for personal use in cases where one has bought the paper book, and no eBook is commercially available, but I'm sure that most people would agree that selling such eBooks to make money is a different matter altogether.