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Originally Posted by khalleron
I agree with Ilkyway, Marcy. I, like many of us here, had pirated copies of LOTR and The Hobbit before they finally became available as ebooks, but I, and many others, bought the ebooks when they came out.
And Tolkien is dead - it would be all the better to buy the books of living authors.
Pirating a book when no legit copy is available doesn't really hurt anyone. Pirating a book when a legit copy is available does.
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If I have a legitimately obtained paper copy, I hardly see the difference. If someone wants to save me the time of ripping my paper copy, I have no problem with that. The fact that the person is in Hong Kong and not in my living room is absolutely irrelevant from an ethical perspective.