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Originally Posted by Who are you?
An author deciding to share his own work isn't doing something illegal, it's just a method of distribution and advertisement. It's up to the author/publisher to decide whether or not they want to use that method. If your local supermarket isn't handing out free samples of say coca cola, that does not give you the right (and certainly not the moral duty) to break into a warehouse, steal a truckload of coca cola and give it away to all your friends.
Civil disobedience is only necessary (and thus legitimate) when you cannot get around a government not acting in the best interest of its citizens. Reading is a fully optional activity. If you don't like how some publishers/authors do business, then you should not do business with them. You can either not read at all, or you can buy your books somewhere else, or you can start your own company that you think provides better value for its customers by doing business in another way.
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This really isn't about rights and wrongs, or stealing from a supermarket, it's about whether you want to embrace reality or fight against it. The reality is your material will be shared if its popular enough and in a digital form. The reality is you can do very little about it, bar firing up the waaambulance. The reality is that if you embrace sharing you gain sales (Coehlo, Doctorow, many others). The reality is that DRM doesn't work. The reality is that people will buy books if they're cheap enough and won't bother to pirate.
Embrace the digital, or GTFO the internet (not you personally, I mean the companies and such
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