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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Your argument is a false equivalence and I'm not going to waste my time on it.
If you buy a used book from anywhere, neither the publisher or author or anyone else associated with the production of that book got a penny from you. Is that theft?
And again, I am referring to books that are out of print. I'm not going to defend downloading a copy of 'Salem's Lot any more than I would defend stealing a copy from Barnes and Noble.
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Yes, they got their money with the original buyer. You can resell property because the original seller got the money they wanted. So no, buying USED property is not theft by any stretch of the imagination.
Now on the other part of your argument, you said that not having the ebook available then it is ok to steal a copy. Whether the book is in print or out of print makes no difference.
Are you saying it would be OK to steal Cinisajoy's memoirs because she decided to pull the book and it is no longer available but not ok to steal a Stephen King.
Either you are ok with all pirating or you are ok with none. You can't have it both ways.