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Originally Posted by HarryT
Here's the thing. Some of us believe that authors deserve to be paid for their work. We don't deprive authors of their livelihood because we aren't technically capable of stealing their books, but because we like to read, and so we like to reward authors for their hard work in writing the books that we read. It's a concept called "honesty".
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Giving your money to a Publisher just means the Publisher gets to steal from the author instead of you. There's still not much honesty involved.
If you're really interested in rewarding authors, how about we get rid of the middlemen content industry and figure out a system that actually pays authors/musicians/etc what they deserve.
This whole "pirates" vs authors argument is ridiculous when the copyright cartel is sitting in the middle laughing at both sides. Until you're able to see that's where the real problem lies, you're just wasting your time.