Thread: eBook piracy, how common is it?
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Old 03-31-2009, 09:41 AM   #78
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
What I don't "get" is the attitude that it is somehow "acceptable" to consume a service without paying for it merely because it's technically possible to do so. The excuse "but I wouldn't have bought it anyway, so nobody's lost anything" is morally bankrupt, IMHO. It's no different from travelling on a train without a ticket and saying that "it's OK because the train was making the journey anyway and there were empty seats".
Next, we need to go after those who check books out of the library. The damn filthy pirates use the book without paying.
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