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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
How is downloading a book encouraging file sharing?
You have not demonstrated that it is unethical. You are simply claiming that it is. Where is your evidence, your argumentation? Or is your claim that you "know" it's unethical "in your heart?" I.e., is your argument "It feels wrong for me to download a book from a pirate site, therefore it is wrong to download a book from a pirate site?"
Luqman
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I can totally follow Overs argumentation, but I can not find one argument in your statement. What are you saying? It is ethical to download files when you KNOW the source is not legal? It is ethical to let this person who does this pirat-site think, that he is doing a good job? It is ethical to violate the rights of authors just because he has a scanner and knows how to do it?
It would be ethical, if he would try to find a way to make cultural goods available to everybody for a reasonable price. It would be ethical if he wrote great books himselve and gave them away for free. But he is trying to make money with the work of other people.
And while I can understand Marcy, I can't understand how other people here are trying to make it sound like the right thing to do.
Ilkyway