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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.
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1/ If the person downloading the book would never ever buy the book, how does that deprive the author of any sort of revenue.
Note sure your comparisons work.
2/ Comparison. Downloading a digital copy of something is the exactly like taking a picture of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre deprives Vincent van Gogh of revenue as the original artist.
Please note, taking a picture of the Mona Lisa, is not treated in the same way as taking it off the wall and walking out with it, ONE is theft, ONE is not I know the mpaa/riaa and various other organizations like to portray it as theft, but the law does not. One is a civil issue, one criminal.
That said, people that download one book in a Trilogy enjoy it, then buy the lot, aren't really doing the wrong thing by the Author are they?
and the ones that download the Trilogy, read it, but won't ever buy the book in the first place, will never give the Author a dime.
For me, I'm a lot closer to number one, if I can't find the book in the library, or e-library, then I might seek Friends reccomendations, if I can't get that, then I'll "borrow" the first book.
Hence, I bought the Hunger games Trilogy recently loved the first, bought the set.