[geneven]

FWIW, I have used Rapidshare repeatedly!

As I recall, I was getting free copies of Puppy Linux!

Of course, Puppy Linux is free anyway.

Now, if I was looking for illegal ebook content, I would personally go to the alt.binaries groups on Usenet.

Once upon a time, I actually fell asleep while downloading content from Usenet.

When I woke up and noticed that I had been downloading all night, I discovered that I had many legal copies of things like Sherlock Holmes books, plus illegal books. It was quite accidental.

I might even still have some of those books somewhere.

I used to work for a software company. We basically didn't mind piracy that much, as long as it was more inconvenient for a user to be a pirate than to be a legitimate user. Users tend to get tired of being illegitimate and reform.

I am currently a Kindle user. I could probably get many of the ebooks I buy for free, but the Kindle is more convenient. But if I hadn't learned how nice ebooks are from reading free copies over the years, I probably wouldn't be interested in buying ebooks today.