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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It's often considered immoral for one person to do something that would be problematic if everyone did it.
If *everyone* torrented ebooks instead of buying them (or if only one person purchased the book, and all other readers got free copies), obviously, that's bad for the author & the support staff that made the book possible to distribute.
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The example was that only people that would not buy it anyway obtained a copy without paying for it. So I do not see how this change anything.
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I'm in the chaos-theory camp that believes that a certain amount of inefficiency and rules-breakage is necessary to any economic & social system; the only way to guarantee *no* unauthorized free copies is total draconian control of people's reading habits, and that's a cure worse than the disease. That doesn't make the free copies "moral" as much as "philosophically necessary," which is an entirely different direction of argument.
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If they are necessary they cannot be immoral. They can maybe be amoral.