Thread: "If you can afford an ebook reader, you can afford ebook prices"
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Old 02-19-2010, 07:59 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114 View Post
I don't think the prices justify piracy.

The appropriate response is to not buy the book, and write the publishers saying why you're not purchasing their product.

Something being priced to high doesn't justify stealing a copy. You wouldn't do it with a physical copy would you? Walk into borders and shoplift a book you want to read but feel it's too high? So why is it ok to steal the digital copy because the e-book is priced to high?

I'm always amazed how the move to digital content, and the ease of illegal obtaining digital content vs. physical products, seems to shift peoples moral judgments on right and wrong.
Bad analogy. Stealing a physical book from Borders would be depriving them of a physical object, and thus prevent them from selling it to someone else.
Downloading a pirated ebook, while it is still wrong, does not permanently deprive the publisher of it, and thus does not meet the definition of stealing.
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