Thread: eBook piracy, how common is it?
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Old 04-07-2009, 06:20 AM   #711
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Originally Posted by PKFFW View Post
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.
It is not simple. A thing is not morally wrong just because it is not legal. If you try to follow some kind of consequence ethics than it is not obviously true that all illegal downloading is wrong.

So either you just say that things are illegal and do not discus morality. But if you discus how things ought to be then you cannot pretend that the issue is simple and just hope that people will be fooled by that.
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