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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Gollu does have a point. It might not be the right course of action to get your books, but a publisher is very narrow minded if they thinks that publishing their books in only one (propriety) format will not cause people to search for their books on the darknet.
Yes, it is their property to do with as they wish, but sometimes you should tell them that what they are doing isn't the wisest course of action as it will cause people to not buy their books but download them instead.
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As far as I'm concerned, the only way that a publisher has the right to demand that everyone who wants the book has to buy the book is if the publisher is willing to sell the book to anyone who is willing to buy it.
If a publisher decides to sell a book only through Amazon, locked into the Kindle through DRM, then it has decided not to sell the book to everyone who is willing to buy it.
So in that situation, I'm perfectly willing to get myself a pirated copy for my 505. Moreover, I would be perfectly willing to get myself a pirated copy even if I had a Kindle.
On the other hand, if a publisher has made a book available in several different DRMed formats, even if available at different prices from different distributors, or if the publisher has made the book available in a single nonDRMed format which anyone can buy and convert, then I think that it is wrong to pirate the book.
See, I don't believe that an ebook is the publisher's property, to do with as it wishes. The copyright law gives the publisher the right to decide NOT to sell the book. But it does not give it the right to sell the book to you, but not to me. Once the publisher decides to sell a book, it has to treat all buyers equally. If it decides not to, it has no moral claims to make against any buyer. (I'm not even sure if it has any legal claims, but that's a different thread...)