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Originally Posted by haertig
Now the people who willingly give up their privacy are implying that those who do not are pirates, questioning where they get their eBooks. This is amazing and sad to watch. It is quite disturbing that a simple - and very minor - difference in people's way of thinking degrades into "You don't think like me, therefore I will denigrate you".
Of all places, a forum dedicated to reading books is the last place I'd expect to see this happen. Yet here we are (again).
Some people care about their privacy, some don't. It's fine to leave that one sit, without starting to question motives for being in one camp or the other. It's perfectly fine to say why you're in one camp, and to give examples to support your position. What's not OK is to start putting down those in the other camp by questioning their integrity.
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We don't question every person who don't want to register their ereader. Just the one who said they never buy ebooks. Like, at all. That's a bit strange, given that they probably don't use the library either. If they said they only buy DRM-free ebooks or only read fanfiction, for example, like many here do, no one would have questioned that. Ditto if they said nothing at all. But to announce they never buy and expect the others to just accept that without any questions is a bit much.