Thread: eBook piracy, how common is it?
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Old 04-01-2009, 12:05 PM   #345
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
No he didn't. He did not promote downloading as an alternative. What he said was DRM is bad, and downloading is also bad. He was just comparing the relative "badness". Nowhere did he suggest downloading was an alternative if you do not like DRM.
Exactly. The consequence is that if I decide to do something I condider morally wrong I try to minimize the wrongness and download from the darknet instead of buying something with DRM.

But having said that. I am not sure that downloading from the darknet is morally wrong from a consequence ethic standpoint. It can be the case that there are laws that we are morally obliged to break to force a change in society.
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