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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Ok,
I will grant this. But ultimately, I will grant that downloading works and immediately deleting them is probably not morally objectionable. That being said, we know that no one downloads works just to delete them. Because of torrents they might download 1000 books and throw away 999 of them; but they keep the 1000th; so that 1000th is in fact depriving the author of income.
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Assuming, of course, that the downloader would have actually bought the book in the first place. Which is a big assumption.