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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
The hurting nobody kind of guys are generally IMO not downloading obscure or Indie works.
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And you're guessing this because...?
One of the reasons people get into torrenting, especially of ebooks, is to find content that's out of print, often with deceased authors and an out-of-business publisher, books of unknown copyright status stuck in legal limbo.
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I don't care who steals a book personally, just the insane need for justification bothers me.
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Conflating all forms of unauthorized copying as "stealing" bothers me. Why not call it "murder," after all, the pirates are "murdering the author's career?"
Different laws. Different penalties. Accurate labels are not incidental to the issue; one of the essential problems is sorting out exactly what's going on, from a legal standpoint.
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And whether pirates like the one under discussion buy a lot is immaterial to the author being pirated.
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Whether the pirate buys *that author's* next four books on the basis of getting one for free, is directly relevant. Or would the author prefer to not make any sales as a result of free reads? Or, somehow, they think fans who downloaded a free book are inferior to those who got it from the breakroom at work where people drop off books they don't want to keep.