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Originally Posted by gollu
100000 download doesn't equal 100000 reads. There are people on the pirate sites who download anything down-loadable, especially small 2-3 mb files. Surely leeching will be included as a known psychiatric disorder in a few years.
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It is just a form of
hoarding or
completism in the digital realm. If you had plenty of shelf space, and people were giving away free (good quality) deadtree books, wouldn't you take lots of them, even if you knew you'd never get around to reading all of them?
I don't know how many pirated books I've accumulated over the years-- but they fill several DVDs.
My biggest completist fantasy? I would SO much love to have digital copies of the entire print runs of all pulp/"digest" type Science Fiction magazines published in the 20th century (extant examples being Asimov's and Analog) even though I would never, ever get around to reading more than a small fraction of them.