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Originally Posted by xg4bx
i take pride in ownership. i wouldn't feel any pride in a collection of movies or video games that consisted of dvd-rs labeled with sharpie.
i don't appreciate things i get for free. i could pirate media quite easily, anybody could, but i simply choose not to most of the time. i'm not gonna lie and say i never helped myself to a book or two. but i know an author, i know what he goes through, i know the crappy he job he works at that puts a roof over his head where he can pursue his craft. its not easy for struggling artists at all.
but its so seductive man. piracy is the forbidden fruit. everything you could want is right there, a copy&paste away. i think it becomes an addiction, one download becomes two, next thing you know you believe paying is for suckers. is it right to give in? no. but lets be frank, telling someone not to do something is like giving a monkey a loaded gun and expecting them not to shoot anybody. i think the internet gives us too much power that we're not ready for yet and as we evolve there are going to be growing pains.
i like where he says that it is dangerous for society and the world at large to believe that you're owed something simply by the virtue that you exist. i'll leave off at that because this isn't the place for that type of discussion.
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I don't think it's so much seductive as so much easier... I can buy a book from, let's say Amazon. I will need to download it to my PC, remove the DRM, and convert it with Calibre (as I don't have a Kindle and the book isn't available in epub). And this is the easy route.
I can also buy a book from BoB (in epub, so no conversion required!). I need to reactivate my adobe reader (which constantly loses its activation, don't ask me how), then I need to download the book (if I can get my pc activated, that is), and remove the DRM (because as my pc constantly loses its activation, I don't even want to think about leaving the DRM on, the chances of me being able to read it again are 0). Besides, I have more devices than is "allowed" by Adobe. And if my husband also wants to read the book, I'll need to convert it into mobi (as he has a kindle).
Or, I could start my favourite newsgroup tool and download the book.
Or, even worse, the ebook isn't even available to me in any legal way... (but it is to somebody who lives about 50km east of me!)