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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
Well, if anyone outside this universe is pirating this universe's books, we'll never know.
But inside this universe, theft is theft.
And "if everything that has been or will ever be written is already so" is a meaningless statement, even in abstract philisophy. In the real world, the arrow of time goes but one way, and anything that has yet to be written has no existence until somone takes the trouble and effort and expense to write it.
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I must admit that on the surface it seems a bit weird to bring the origin of the universe into a discussion about whether or not is is ethical to access an ebook that has already been uploaded to the network. However, I do not claim to know the origin of the universe, nor do I believe anyone else knows. We can however, lump the universe and everything outside it together ad infinitum until it is all just one big lump, or ebook if you prefer, just waiting to be accessed and read.
What is this real world you speak of?