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Originally Posted by DrNefario
The person whose book you would have bought if you weren't reading that illegal ebook?
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Not quite. This is a case of I was never going to buy it. So because of that, I've not taken a sale away from the author.
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I think you've mis-read DrNefario's post. By pirating and reading a book that you wouldn't have bought in any case, you have taken away the sale of the book that you would otherwise have bought to have something to read instead of the book that you pirated.
It's like people who pirate Microsoft Office, and say "but I would never have bought it full price, so pirating it doesn't affect their sales". Their action affects the sales of other, cheaper, alternative software.