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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
There is a large danger in pirating books (or anything else). Ignoring that pirated media is often lower quality than legal copies, even if you could justify pirating a copy of something (replacing a damaged original, for example), pirated media is often rife with malware. You would also be supporting the pirates.
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Pirated media is more often higher quality than legal copies, at least in my experience.
I haven't found any malware in a book yet - it's not a program, it's not a code to run, the worst thing to happen would be to have a script virus in DOC file, but there aren't many DOC files among pirated books.
Those who scan and release books, or break DRM generally don't make money off it, and think badly of people making money off pirated copies.
I believe that by downloading a pirated book one gives a hint to publishing industry that they should compete with piracy through accessibility and quality of ebooks and not through DRMs.