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Originally Posted by kennyc
I'm not really trying to convince anyone, it's clear everyone has already taken sides on this.
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The vocal, educated people with a strong interest have taken sides. But MR gets lots of lurkers and people discovering ebooks for the first time.
In any internet discussion, if you're arguing with someone who's not going to be convinced (and the pro/anti filesharing sides are pretty well entrenched here), you argue *at* that person but *to* the lurkers.
You're not going to convince me. And I'm too much of an anarchist to care what random people online think is "criminal" anyway. ("Random" in the sense of "not working for a law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over me.")
You might convince newcomers who are just now discovering ebooks and trying to figure out how the tech works and where they can get new books to read--but not if you make statements of "fact" that are easily disproven.