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Originally Posted by ardeegee
There is not a single thing in the above quote that even remotely approaches actual facts. ...
Let's give a real world example-- at the very time I've been reading these messages, I've been downloading a set of books I've just found called The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Never heard of 'em before. Never will read them from cover to cover. But somehow, some day, I might need a factoid that I might find in one, so in my archives they go.
If I hadn't stumbled across those books on-line, would I have ever ever ever paid the $728.00 that a set of them costs on Amazon? Heck, no....
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eXCUUUUUSE ME? No facts my ....
Okay so you are saying you are "legally" downloading a set of books - meaning that whomever's property it is has given permission for you to do that that. Let's assume that is the case (but certainly I don't know that for a fact, if you want to discuss facts).
I see by the second part of your conjecture that apparently this same set of books is available for purchase (regardless of price). That tends to make me think that perhaps you do not have permission to download the books for free, but never-the-less were going to assume that you do.
You are saying that you would never buy them for the offered price. That's fine, so no lost sale. Yet you are talking about needing/using information from the books so this leaves us with several possibilities.
If the permission to download the books for free was given then the author is not expecting a sale to you.
If permission was not given to download the books then you are a thief.
If permission were given to download the books for free yet you bought them for a large price then you are paying for your ignorance.
As far as borrowing books from the library and reading them. They get returned. The author and publisher was paid a fair price for the physical instantiation of the book. No issues there, no theft.