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Originally Posted by Shaggy
How is that my problem? You don't make something illegal just because it's easier to catch the people that really are breaking the law.
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Anyone who downloads a copyrighted book is breaking the law. The question is how do you define the law. Here the idea is to define the law so that it can be enforced. The argument essentially is that since the 90% who already owns copies of the work receive minimal harm from not downloading said work, then it is more important to protect the copyright holders so that authors will continue to have incentive to produce works.
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I don't think that's how the law works. Whether or not downloading is illegal is a separate offense from the copyright infringement of distribution (uploading).
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Why shouldn't the law work that way? I know it is absolutely illegal to knowingly purchase and/or possess stolen property. Why should it not also be illegal to knowingly download that which you know was illegally uploaded?
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Bill