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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
If I moved my library reading to piracy, I'd be saving the library wear and tear on the books, not to mention labor (retrieval and transport of holds, having to reshelf when the book's returned, etc.).
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If you are like everyone in my rather ADD-ridden family, you would also be costing the library the revenue from fine payments. And less likely to support library fund-raising campaigns.
If library borrowing statistics go down, the case for libraries, in competition for many other demands on public funds, goes down, as does their funding. This means not just fewer books for alleged freeloaders like yours truly, but less of the job finding help, homework completion support, and literacy promotion public libraries provide.
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Originally Posted by xg4bx
i pirate books sometimes
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And I sometimes, in my 56 years of life, have done worse things than that. Almost everyone this side of sainthood has. However, I don't think you should be admitting to the specifics.
First, there is no real expectation of identities staying anonymous on a board like this. Right now, there is no real law enforcement against piracy except for a very few alleged kingpins, but this could change. You shouldn't be admitting to a likely violation of law that, if ever prosecuted, might be over-prosecuted, causing not only yourself, but others who care about you, to suffer. I can even see threads like this being used against MobileRead, which is, from a US standpoint, a foreign web site hosting infringing content (with repeated wise but unenforced warnings to check national laws before downloading).
Second, you shouldn't admit to it without implying it is wrong. I admit to all parking and traffic violations that I have ever been convicted of and plan to do better in the future.
Paranoid? Just to lay it out there, I'm not sure. But I don't think others can be sure either.