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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, Apache, you've slightly lost me. Who's talking about posting reviews? The poster to whom I was replying was claiming that no harm was done by illegally downloading books.
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
A slight twist on the usual derail Harry, someone said that if it's harmful to illegally download books because it deprives the author of income then bad reviews are equally harmful to the author so whats the difference.
Frankly, I've given up - the people who want it for free are never going to agree that is it "using without permission" and therefore wrong.
You can compare it to :-
Using the train without paying
Sneaking into the cinema without paying
etc
It won't matter, the important thing to 1 side of this discussion here is the not paying part.
I'm still waiting for someone to suggest that stealing the book from the library is a great idea because then no one can read it for free and will have to buy it - as a justification for illegally downloading it  |
Sorry Harry, I was not as clear as I should have been. Mike explained what I meant.
Pirating is stealing.
Writing bad reviews is not and is not illegal unless there is malicious intent. And that is hard to prove.
Apache