[GERGE]

eBooks are created by pirates. Back then, more then fifteen years ago, when there wasn't even the talk of selling eBooks, on IRC. If it wasn't for the people who scanned and proofread the books, there wouldn't even be eBooks today. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't have learned English and no business buying eBooks anyway.

I won't say I don't pirate books. I do. As much as I pirate movies and music. Everyone who knows how to do does. Even if they have money, sometimes pirating a book in digital format is a lot easier then ordering it across the ocean. Particularly if the book isn't sold in digital format. Or downloading a blurayrip and watching it on your notebook instead of buying the movie and watching it on PS3. And any geek who says he doesn't is lying.

As you can see, it is mostly about convenience and not about malignity. We are not criminal masterminds.

But there are other reasons too:

Let's take Michael Moorcock for an example. Many of his books are out of print and there are no digital editions. You can only find them on second hand market which usually doesn't sell to the county I live in. I think I can pirate them and read them and call what I did morally right. If publishers don't want me to *steal* from them, they should at least make the books available to me.

More importantly, there is also the case with the academic publishings. I have a right to knowledge. They can't preclude me from having it. They can't say that just because I live in Turkey I can't learn about deep-see microbiology. They should sell them to me, or I will reach them by my own means.

Law for law's own sake is good and well, but that doesn't mean that I must heed to it when it doesn't make sense to me. Or when it conflicts with my own anarchistic beliefs. Art or knowledge cannot be proscribed.

Let's say it again: Art or knowledge cannot be proscribed.

PS: Did some big publishing house pay something to you? Even if they did, you are not doing a good job with this posts filled with ad hominem abusives used in wrong formats.