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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
My initial answer was that unlike Sammy Hagar, I expect that you can drive 55.
But really, I concede your point and have just downloaded the Piranha novelization (written by John Sayles!).
Novelizations are typically seen as the bottom of the literary barrel. Except for a few rare instances (King Kong, Star Wars, Alien) once the movie disappears from theaters the book goes permanently out of print.
As a kid, I loved a cartoon series called Robotech. The series was popular enough that it spawned a series of novelizations. When I first got into e-books, I found fan made scans of the books and downloaded them.
Later, Del Rey actually released commercial e-book versions and I dutifully purchased them.
I'm not out to get something for nothing. If a commercial edition exists, I'll buy it. But for the type of books I'm talking about, if a fan scan is all that exists, I see no harm in grabbing it.
I'm not trying to make the argument that there is no wrongness or piracy to these things. As I mentioned earlier, justifications like 'copying isn't theft' are whitewashes that bother me. I understand it is wrong. But then I also understand that going over the speed limit is wrong.
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Interestingly, the author of the robotech books was a pen name for a pair of writers, including Brian Dailey, one of my favorite slightly obscure authors.