Thread: Do you pirate books and why?
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Old 02-03-2012, 01:21 PM   #204
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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?
Precisely my thought. I'm not paying for the very same book/music/movie/game/whatever twice or thrice just because it's republished under a new shiny cover. Buy "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Heart Club" on LP, now buy on ultra-crisp CD, now buy on DVD with the old black&white Beatle movie clips, now buy the old songs remastered in DTS 5 bluray, now stream it from our online store, now...

I figure that content is what matters less these days. People don't download huge torrents for what is inside, but for what it fills.
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