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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Illegally downloading from the darknet does not, in fact, demonstrate a dislike in e-book prices. It does demonstrate your willingness to take illegal steps to get what you want, which is a different thing altogether.
You can achieve the same effect without the civil disobedience, in this case. Simply inform the publisher or author that you refused to buy the e-book, and why, and it gets the point across. Illegal downloading only makes you look like a criminal to a publisher or author, and a criminal is no one they want to do business with.
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It might make you look like a criminal to the publisher and
some authors, but there's plenty of authors who gain audiences by sharing their books. I'll cite the two biggest as they're the ones everyone probably already knows - Cory Doctorow and Paulo Coehlo. Both are advocates of sharing, both are fully aware their texts are distributed through file sharing (darknet is a ridiculous word and I refuse to use it any longer. It conjures up images of paedophile rings) networks and sometimes through the sneakernet. Study after study has shown that filesharers buy more products and that being exposed on the file sharing networks gains you audience and sales.