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Originally Posted by dmikov
Nobody is advocating piracy as an only way to distribute creative work, not that I read it in this thread anyway. So please stop building a straw man.
But many pointing out the roots and extenuating circumstances as to why we sometimes forced to it.
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"Extenuating circumstances?"
We're not talking about food for the starving, jobs for the poor or medicine for the sick. We're talking about ebooks, mostly for entertainment. They are not vital to anyone's survival... which means that no one has a
right to obtain them. Suggesting that procuring ebooks against copyright limitations, breaking DRM or pirating the books without paying for them is somehow a necessary evil to satisfy the greater good is so much
hogwash.
That's also why the above arguments against DRM, copyright, etc, are not to satisfy the greater good, they are to satisfy personal and non-vital desires.
Now, of course, I'm sure the rejoinder will be: "Well, since it's so unimportant, what difference does it make whether or not I do it?"
And to answer that question, I invite anyone to look up the meaning of the phrase "society."