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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
We need food, shelter and clothing, but if you can't pay for the best that life has to offer, you must buy what you can afford if you are honest.
Taking whatever you want without paying the sellers priceor having the sellers permission is considered theft in most instances.
I'm not saying theft is never justified, just that I cannot see any justification for theft of a book, whether it is by downloading or actual physical theft of a physical book when there are so many legal ways to get them in most North American and European countries.
Helen
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Let us imagine that I am a speed reader and am able to get through the latest thriller by Author Z in an hour. Would it be theft if I were to go to my local bookstore, sit on one of their comfy couches and read the entire text without purchasing a copy.
That's a rhetorical question of course, it should not matter if I read the entire book or the first word on the first page...
Yes there are "legal" ways to get just about any book anyone could desire, as long as they live within a decent library network... But seeing as how I do live within such a library network, why can't I just imagine myself using this network and obtain the book myself by other means, is not this the same?
How is downloading a text via a torrent file theft, and checking out the same text from the library not theft? The answer is it is not. The only thing separating the two is a small fee paid to the creator... Why not figure out how send these fees to the creator per each torrent download, instead of per each library checkout?