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Originally Posted by Astrakan
As long as the creator (or owner) isn't giving what they created away for free, nobody should be enjoying that product for free. I've never heard a reason, motivation or excuse that have even come close to altering my views on this.
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There are so many legal ways to enjoy content (I speak of books here) for free - they're called libraries. I've read blog posts by some authors who are indignant of even THAT.
Paraphrasing here, "I am the author of Name of Book. I receive fan mail sometimes from people praising my work up and down, only to get to the end of the email and find out that they've read it at the
library!"
Indignance at piracy I can understand, but authors quickly lose me when I've done the right thing and "waited in line" for my hold to come in and given the book back after I was done, only to find it to be marginally better than piracy in the eyes of the author.
Is shelling out money I don't have the only "real way" to honor an author?