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Originally Posted by K-Thom
Nope. Forget it. Naive concept. Silly notion. If they can get in on torrent eventually why pay for it at all?
Leechers don't pay. They suck.
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Don' you love when somebody puts everybody in boxes? I'm a leecher, so I suck.
No matter that I've bought several books after reading a leeched version, either in pbook or ebook format. I've also leeched some books I already have in pbook but was too lazy to scan myself (as there is no ebook version available).
Another thing: most leecher are hoarders. They download, but do not consume. Back at the start of my ereading days (somewhere in 2002, 2003), I downloaded a lot of books (didn't even look at what I downloaded). I don't think I ever read 99% of those.
What Bob Butler said, is an interesting hypothesis. I own a book, but don't want to scan it myself (either because I don't have a scanner, or I don't have the time). So, I give that book to somebody else to scan for me. Is that legal?
Or I get a scanned copy from somebody else, who also has that book. Is that legal?