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So you are best buds with that guy on the torrent site? You are borrowing his copy of the e-book, reading it, and returning it? Or exchanging one e-book for another?
Please. downloading books from the darknet or torrents is called piracy for a reason. When you take something, a pirated book, for which you have not paid that is theft. You cannot pretend that you are borrowing it or checking it out or giving it to a single friend.
You will note that in my original posts I flat out said that someone who cannot afford books should borrow them from a library, participate in a book exchange, go to a used book store, and a fair number of other options. The author does not get paid for them (other then the library) but the paper book is limited in its distribution and these options are deemed legal. Maybe not popular with the Authors but legal.
Downloading an e-book from a torrent site is not the same. Your downloading does not mean someone else has to wait for it to be returned or emailed to them to read it. Someone else can go and download that e-book. The book is never out of circulation, there are no limits. Piracy is illegal. I can see cases where people participate on a very limited basis because there is no option (the e-book is not available and the person owns the paper version even though technically you could just go without). Downloading pirated e-books and justifying that behavior with "I can't afford to buy them" is not on my list (and yes I know that list is highly subjective and people say that I am in the wrong with my limited reasons) of acceptable reasons.
If you cannot afford the e-book use the legitimate means available to read. Yes, that might mean reading paper books but so what? Buy the e-books when you can afford them. Hopefully that will be soon but depriving authors of their income because you are choosing to steal their work and not using legitimate means for reading is wrong.
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