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Originally Posted by moz
The question is not how many pbooks you have, but how many of them you paid the authors for. If you buy a book second hand that's no better than piracy. If you buy it from a discount bin the author probably doesn't get a cent, so that's no better than piracy either.
The only honest way to buy a book is a first run, full price hardback.
Anything else is stealing.
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I do hope that was sarcasm. It is hard to tell sometimes.
EDIT: Okay, I'm going with sarcasm
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I make no claims never to have touched a piece of pirated media. What I do very firmly state is that I would never download a book that I hadn't bought a paper version of because, in my personal code of ethics, it would be wrong to do so
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Wait, did you just say you are okay with and have used other forms of piracy, as long as it isn't books? And just because my personal code of ethics might not match yours, I'm the one that must be wrong? Skating on thin ice, there. Maybe I don't have morals by your standards. Looking at the state and the history of the world when I got here (which was presumably after you), I would say that the moral codes and priorities of the people that came before me must have been pretty screwy.