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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
[...] it's harmful to illegally download books because it deprives the author of income [...]
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To this (almost) no one can really object.
Even if only 1 out of 1000 downloaders would have bought the book if he wasn't able to find it in the darknet, it's still a few dollars that the author doesn't get.
And in most countries such download is illegal.
Bu I'm more concerned about the ethical aspect of it: why to get a torrent is to blame, while all the mentioned legal methods to access the book contents wthout rewarding the author are not?
What do you think? Do you consider borrowing books immoral because the author is deprived of his income?
And how downloading a dead author's book is depriving him of his income?
Do you go by the equation legal = ethical?