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Originally Posted by Moejoe
It's a really really good thing that copying a digital file is not theft then, isn't it?  Maybe, maybe it's copyright infringement, if you believe in such antiquated things, but it certainly isn't theft. |
Well, ebooks here aren't books at all, they are an electronic service...
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I certainly don't feel ashamed for defending others' rights. You are hurting publishers and authors by making/downloading illegal copies (you are asking everybody to work for free for your pleasure), if you are fine with that or don't see it that way, then there is no basis to continue this argument.
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I'd love to pay for books from my favourite authors. Sadly, they (aka the publishers) won't allow me to. They don't sell the books I want in my region, and I can't buy them from another region. And you really find it strange that people will go find other ways to get their book?
Example: I love Robert J. Sawyer. He has written some excellent books, the series I love the most is the Neanderthal Parallax. I bought books one and two (after having downloaded them from the darknet a few years ago!) but when book three finally was available, I couldn't buy it. Only sold in the region US. I'd love to replace my "illegal" version of the book, but they won't allow me, unless I lie. Which is also illegal, because you're not allowed to lie about your location.
Another example: the Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown. I wanted to buy that book, but couldn't. At WHSmith (where maybe I can buy it, maybe not, as they don't mention geographical restrictions at all) it is for sale in epub format. I have absolutely no use for epub format. At fictionwise, where I've been going to for over 5 years now, it's for sale in ereader format, which I like much better, as I can read that on my WinCE device, I can't buy it because of geographical restrictions. I did lie about my country and still had to go to the darknet to find a copy of the book because I couldn't download it,
even though I have bought it!
I don't think people here
want to go to the darknet, I think most people here want to buy their books and read them. But the
global market is making that impossible for a lot of honest people.