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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why would there be an anomaly? Do you really think that the thieving bastards who download them from the darknet (my apologies - "copyright infringing bastards", for the purists among us  ) would have gone out and bought them if they hadn't been available for illegal download? I'm afraid I don't. I can understand why someone would download a book if there isn't an eBook version available. I don't understand at all the "morals" of someone who'd illegally download something whose legal copies are as reasonably priced as Steve's are. That seems pretty "morally bankrupt" to me. |
Is that as morally bankrupt as not respecting the GPL and therefore committing copyright infringement?
And if there is no anomaly then it does not matter at all that the books are available on the darknet.