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Are you depriving the author and publisher, the creater and owner of the good, of money by down loading the e-book from a torrent site and not paying for it? Yes. That is theft.
I don't care that you are not depriving someone else of the ability to buy the e-book, you are taking something that has been assigned a value and not paying for it. Your actions are depriving someone of the money that they deserve. Stealing a recipie or the schematics to a product is theft. It is tried differently then stealing a cake or an IPad but it is still theft and there are penalties for it.
You are trying to justify depriving someone of their income based on the fact that it is somehow ok to steal the electronic version or the recipie and not a physical object. I get that you think that is some how logical or justifiable but the vast majority of people probably disagree with you.
When I wasnot making money, as a child, teenager, college student, unemployed adult, I got my books by going to the library. That is what you do when you are poor or don't have money. The author and publisher get paid and you get to read. I did not steal a book or a CD or a cake or anything along those lines because I wanted it and I could not afford it. It sucks not having money. I prefer working and being able to afford most of what I want at this time in my life. If I wasn't, I would not eat out, I would not be buying books (electronic or paper), I would not got to bakeries. I would avail myself of the options that exist for me.
Because that is what you do. You do not steal from others and try and develop justification for stealing because I want something that I cannot afford. And I sure as hell would not try and justify stealing a luxury item. Food, clothes, necessities of life I can see how desperate you could become and how that could lead to desperate acts. But not for books.
I am sorry but you are not going to convince me that it is ethical or right to steal an e-book because you have an e-reader and you want to read it and you cannot get it from the library. You can read the paper version, you can read other books. But don't try and blow smoke up my butt and come up with some Robin Hood explination fro depriving an author of money from his/her e-book.
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