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Originally Posted by HarryT
When you download a book illegally, are you saying that you contact the author or publisher and inform them that you have done so? If not, in what way are you "sending out a signal"?
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If Tom, Dick, and Harry can find their way to the piratebay, you can bet the content owners can (given their continued futile efforts to shut these operations down). Piracy on the internet is not exactly "underground". See also the hysterical (and unfounded) loss projections the movie and music industry come up with once in a while. In fact, piracy has become the ultimate scapegoat - are profits down? piracy!
It would be interesting if the people did have an anonymous way to voice their opinions, concerns and actions/reasons for actions to the content owners directly, but I think doing so in the current pirate-witchhunt climate will get you nailed to a tree and charged with a fine that is completely out of proportion.
But this is side-tracking - I would be interested in your ideas on the piracy vs obscurity argument, the attention is worth something argument, and the abstinence vs piracy argument.