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Originally Posted by jakewastaken
I don't think anyone is claiming piracy isn't wrong. Can we stop harping on the words right and wrong. They are meaningless in this discussion. Life isn't fair. People break rules; they break the law. You're never going to get them to feel bad about it.
The people reading illicit material are not waiting for your acceptance. There is no sense of entitlement. It's much more likely that people have problems with authority or just don't give a rats ass about legality. They don't feel they have the right to break the law, they just DO it.
"Is piracy moral?" and "Is piracy on the rise?" are two distinctly different questions.
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Sorry, but right and wrong are at the very heart of the debate. It is only by making the people who currently feel that they have some "right" to read books without paying for them realise that they are taking money away from the authors (whose work they presumably enjoy) and are doing wrong by them that one has any chance of changing their behaviour. Saying it's "illegal" is meaningless.
Can you - as a self-confessed pirate - explain why you don't believe that you are doing wrong and why, if you DO consider it to be wrong, you do it? (Or if you don't consider it to be wrong, why you don't?). I'd be genuinely interested to know how you morally justify your actions. As I've said before, I have no issues at all with downloading if you buy the paper book to compensate the author, but I don't see how anyone can morally justify downloading without either buying the eBook (if available) or the pBook (if not).