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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
If you really don't want it why bother to take/steal it? The argument is so specious that Giggleton makes way more sense on this issue.
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He doesn't want it at the price it's being offered at, or -- very likely -- he wants to sample it first in this hypothetical situation.
Has no one here ever checked out a book from the library before deciding whether or not to buy the book? It's not the same thing, because the library presumably paid the author for the copy (unless it was donated as a used book but somebody, somewhere, hundreds or thousands of reads ago bought the book once. Unless it was stolen from the bookstore and donated to the library! But I digress.), but it's ultimately the same concept: I wouldn't read this for $10 but I would read it for free.
There is strong anecdotal evidence linked all over MR that pirates
buy a lot. They just don't buy everything they use/sample, and they don't always buy
before using it.
I don't pirate, but I understand it. I frequently check books out from the library first before buying.
