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Originally Posted by Kevin2960
Theft is theft, dress it up anyway you like, in the end we all have to live with how we act/behave,
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Hunh??? So I take it you *always* buy a book, read it once and then throw it away? After carefully shredding it so no one else can read it, yes? Because once you've read it once, to read it again without re-purchasing it would be 'theft' yes?
Oh wait! But by purchasing the book you *own* it. Well, if you own it, then you have to right to enjoy it again - even in a different format, such as on tape or as an ebook. Let's say you have a favorite author whose books you read again and again. Let's say you discover you're going blind, so you have your spouse read the books, either onto a tape/CD or directly to you - you're now 'stealing' from the publisher and author because you didn't go out and buy those versions! And if you happen to learn braille, and you purchase a scanning system to translate from printed to braille, you're also 'stealing' from the author. How can you possibly justify that!
IOW, bullpuckey!
Sure, *if* a person has never purchased a dead-tree version and decides to download an ebook from the dark-net and refuses to buy the legal version, that *IS* theft. But to sweep every method of gaining an ebook version as 'theft' if it doesn't involve buying from the retailer is so stupifyingly simplistic as to boogle the mind!
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It upsets me that people who moan at publishers cheating them ?, are then so happy to take from an author, without paying even a token amount ???
In the end we have to do what we believe is right, and I know what I truly believe,
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