Thread: Do you pirate books and why?
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Old 01-30-2012, 12:34 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The writer is perfectly justified in not making a commercial eBook available - that's absolutely their choice. But if I buy the paper book (thus paying the author) and then obtain an eBook for my own personal use, I don't consider that to be ethically wrong. Do you? It's illegal, yes, but is it wrong?
I agree, if you've supported the author already and just want an ebook for convenience that's not really fitting the "theft" definition of piracy to me.
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