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Originally Posted by Quoth
But the wolves are surely people that expect to get copyright work without paying the copyright holder / authorised retailer.
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"Expect"? There are many, many reasons why people commit piracy. Not all for pure greed. Affordability (students) or out of print/inaccessible are two that come to mind.
I am not supporting piracy, but it is a fact of life where potentially billions of people have, at some stage, committed an act of piracy. Even most, if not every single member on this forum, either with books, movies, tv shows, music or other media items, has done so. I see the piracy references in a lot of posts here, yet most are not called out. It's only when one or two particular vigilante members get involved in a thread that it slowly gets twisted into finger pointing and piracy accusations.
But in this case, I am pointing the finger at some members here that take a question and run in a different direction with it in an attempt to entrap another member under the guise of trying to be helpful. You can see it coming a mile away.
Unfortunately in this case, the OP ended up shooting himself in the foot. Obviously did not understand, or see, my warning in time.
This forum has drawn a line that separates legal/piracy. It is an arbitrary line and most members have become comfortable with that line and justify it in their own way. Yet it is all piracy. The one act that everyone here calls piracy is, in fact, legal where I live, and that is format shifting. If I have an original and legal copy of a book, I am entitled to make a digital version of it, as long as it is me making that version and not a downloaded copy.
Yesterday I went and purchased the new Robert Galbraith book -
The Hallmarked Man (yay!!). Saw it listed on Dymocks at $34.99 but at some stage reduced to $26.99. While there, noticed the new Dan Brown novel
The Secret of Secrets listed as $39.99. Went to Big W and Robert Galbraith was $18 (which I purcased). Dan Brown was $30. To me, this shows how large the markups are for book retailers. I know there are a lot of people that cannot afford $40 for a novel. As a side note, the pbook I purchased is not too far off from the cost of a Kindle download.
Kindle download cost