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Originally Posted by pdurrant
You may not have issue with pirating content, but MobileRead does. MobileRead takes copyright very seriously.
MobileRead will not encourage or condone copyright infringement. If you boast about how you wilfully pirate content again you will be suspended from MobileRead.
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That's ridiculous. I've not mentioned anything about piracy, only searching for a book title. Want to go to court over this? You will loose because internet searches are not illegal, nor is saving data from a publicly available web page. Want to kick me off this forum? I've been a low-level contributing member since 2010, if you do, I never should have been here in the first place.
My morality resides with the law, by my choice, or else I'd move countries. If it's legal, it's legal - period, and morality is a fools game. The fact is I am a very moral person and I live by spiritual morals daily. But my morality is based in practical, common sense governed by being a human living in this world. Are you paying more taxes then you need to? Do you use public services more then others, more then average? Shouldn't you volunteer more taxes for this use, wouldn't that be the societal moral thing to do? Shouldn't US congress people not be able to profit from insider stock trading based on information garnered from their publicly elected position? Isn't that immoral? Are these actions Christian? Yet it happens every week.
Regarding those religious quotes, don't bother. Religion is a morality of convenience and a fools game. Christianity is based on a book articulated and written by disciples and disciples of those disciples, not on Christ himself, who I believe, was a beautiful man. If you are following the bible, you are following a fairy tale and this truth will become evident, crystal-clearly evident, in a very precise moment of your life.
FYI, most of what I read are programming and engineering books which are open source, or released for free online, &/or published on Medium. I'm not downloading NY Times bestsellers when they come out, nor do I want to. There's the library to read anything current, which, BTW, is free.
Phil