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Originally Posted by acidzebra
Wait, did you just say you are okay with and have used other forms of piracy, as long as it isn't books?
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No, I didn't say that. My CD and DVD collections are 100% legal. I freely admit to having broken British law by ripping the CDs which I've bought to my iPod, however.
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And just because my personal code of ethics might not match yours, I'm the one that must be wrong?
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Certainly not - I make no claims whatsoever to be "in the right". I am, however, very interested to know how people who do consider it right to read books without compensating the author morally justify it. Do they not consider the author's work to be worth paying for?
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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 "elders" must have been pretty screwy.
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I refuse to be held accountable for the state of the world. It would have been a lot better if I'd been running it
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