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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
This site, and many others like it, are replete with members who willingly download books and music from torrents and other sites, and use as their reasoning the belief that no one will be able to stop them... that's the way it is, so it's okay, QED, "get used to it."
I'm not saying everyone is this way... but it is a major proportion of our society, and it must be dealt with. That's why we have laws, and law enforcement agencies... there's no point in acting like it's not there.
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Oh please. I download torrents because otherwise I can't get hold of the books at any price. If I can buy a book, I will. I will freely admit to having downloaded Jean Auel's books, all of Robert Heinlein's works not available for purchase, the Cadfael books and some miscellaneous other things I wanted e-copies to replace my p-copies, but weren't available.
The way to get me off the darknet is to make these books available legitimately and at a reasonable price. My definition of a reasonable price is the same price as the cheapest pbook version available.
Your attitude towards your readers makes me sorry that I purchased all your books. I just checked and I have 9 of them on my Fictionwise bookshelf. I also checked my torrent program and discovered all your books are sitting in a torrent I already had downloaded to get the E.E. "Doc" Smith Lensman series. I had only checked off the Smith books to download, but a quick change of your priority from "skip" to "normal" got me all the books in under 5 minutes. Did that cause me to not buy your books? No. But treating me like a thief pisses me off and puts me off purchasing any future books.
-Marcy