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A great quote from the movie "The big Chill" comes to mind after skimming this thread.
It goes something like.....
"Rationalisations are more important than sex. You can go a day without sex but just try to make it through the day without a rationalisation!"
Likening illegal downloads to borrowing a book from the library or a friend is a bit specious. In each case one is obtaining legal access to the book, illegal downloading of a book is not gaining legal access to the book. The fact that you see no difference is beside the point really. Most other arguments that I read(and I only skimmed the thread after the first 15 pages) such as the big corporations sticking it to the authors and consumers etc, are just as specious. Nice little rationalisations that make people feel better about what they are doing and nothing else.
Why not just man up and admit you know what you are doing is wrong and you are ok with it?
I'll put my hand up and admit I have pirated ebooks. I know it is wrong regardless of how I dress it up. Somebody has gone to the time and effort to produce the book and I have obtained illegal access to it. Simple. Instead of rationalising it, I make myself feel better by going out and buying another book or two by the same author if I liked the book. If I didn't like it, I don't.
It's usually the ones that are rationlising the strongest that have no intention of ever buying a legitimate copy of any ebooks because they don't feel the need to pay for something they can get for free.
All in my humble opinion of course.
Cheers,
PKFFW
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