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Originally Posted by murg
I view a significant portion of the 'pirates' as having political motivations for their 'piracy'.
The only way to account for the amount of effort some people take to upload books (and other electronic media) to free sites is to view it as a political act in protest against the publishers.
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I know some people do it to try to get back at the publishers for the high prices and DRM. I cannot say if this is political or not. But it is not just done to just do it.
There are others who just do it because they can and so they do. So scan books not available as eBooks and put them out because they don't exist as eBooks and they think morally it's not an issue.
There are probably other reasons that I am unaware of for doing it.