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Originally Posted by Rellwood
Yup, I have a ton of books from .nzb sites (and other) from 2015 to today. However I have gone from maybe 600 books in one year to like 30. I am dealing with old .rars and not new ones. Sometimes I like to download a huge amount is a single folder full of random files to see if there is anything new or good I would otherwise never know about.
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Sorry but I don't know of any legitimate publishers who posted their books to Usenet.
As for your justification of piracy? Pirating an ebook based on you possibly not finding the series interesting is not going to fly—you pays your money and you takes your chances. As for using your public library or Kindle Unlimited as a source for books to keep longer than the loan period (or maximum number of books loans at one time for KU)? Not only piracy but a nasty form of piracy.
And justifying your piracy based on your income? Who do you think you are? Google?
La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.—Anatole France
(In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.)
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Originally Posted by Rellwood
Also, I am on Social Security for disablity and live off of $1000 a month. Reading is my only hobby and yeah, glass houses. Do you have pirated tv, movies or music? I don't.
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I don't have pirated TV shows, movies or music. And I have trouble seeing how the fact that some people do have collections of pirated content somehow makes your piracy less heinous. "But I only stole books! I never stole a movie!" doesn't fly.
I am one of those people who have over 10K of books in my collection. All of which are public domain, free (commercial and fanfic), paid for or scans of paperbacks that I own (after scanning, the sales value of a mass of loose pages is effectively 0). A good chunk of my book purchases are funded by my sideline of cleaning up ebooks for some local authors. Most of those get me a free copy of the ebook as well but sadly, most of them are in genres that I have little to no interest in.