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Originally Posted by DNSB
Unlikely. I quoted what you posted which required a "modified (DRM removed)" book to be placed illegally on the Internet. You were then asked if you would consider someone who placed a DRM free but copyrighted book on the Internet to be a thief. At which point, a simple yes or no would have sufficed. Instead you went into asking about the publisher receiving due payment which a bit risible when we are discussing books placed illegally on pirate sites.
But coming from someone who routinely removed DRM from borrowed books with the excuse that the online loan forced such removal?
Your words elsewhere say that by your standards, you are a thief. Your words here "DRM removal, however, is theft in my eyes" say that you are an admitted thief and a hypocrite.
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It is quite simple:
I have heard of living rights holder who have published some of their works on such sites; and these works, because these rights holder are still alive, of course have copyright, and of course they are not thieves.
A simple yes or no would have been the wrong answer, of course, because I couldn't read anything about "illegal" in JSWolfs question.
And although such sites are called pirate sites, there are far more legal works there than pirated ones, and not only in my estimation - if it were otherwise, there would be legally forced and generally accepted provider blockings.
If they put it there themselves, then they get for each download what they expect - so my answer is correct.
However, there are problems with you in understanding a correct but somewhat more complex answer - maybe it could help you to reduce your reading speed, or use brain - if available.
I will not go into the further part, he has the same intellectual quality - a corresponding answer could be interpreted as an insult among people without understanding, although it would be easy for me to provide proof of the truth.