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Old 07-05-2012, 01:06 PM   #1
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Has anyone dealt with either of these sites, they sell ebooks at low prices for ebooks and ebook collections. They have a great selection of books. Are they reliable? Just want to check if anyone has any experience with them before I shop.
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Old 07-05-2012, 01:20 PM   #2
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[deleted] and [deleted] are pirate sites. A quick check is Harry Potter. The only legitimate source of Harry Potter ebooks is Pottermore. Anyone trying to sell you them for $1.50 is clearly a pirate.

Don't give your money to crooks.

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Old 07-05-2012, 03:29 PM   #3
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Old 07-06-2012, 02:05 AM   #4
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Those are REAL pirates because they try and sell ebooks unlike those who share them freely and have no profit in it.
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Old 07-06-2012, 05:49 AM   #5
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Old 07-06-2012, 01:22 PM   #6
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I love the new name of this thread.
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Old 07-06-2012, 01:36 PM   #7
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Same here. Sounds like a choice one has to make so let me see hmm ... I chose "Deleted", or do you think I should go for "deleted" ?

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Old 07-06-2012, 02:48 PM   #8
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Same here. Sounds like a choice one has to make so let me see hmm ... I chose "Deleted", or do you think I should go for "deleted" ?
You have the choices incorrect. The choices are [deleted] or [deleted]. There is no Deleted or deleted.
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Old 07-06-2012, 03:44 PM   #9
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I love the new name of this thread.
Yeah, but I have to wonder about the value of it. Would anyone knowingly buy from a pirate site? Not only are you handing over identifying information that copyright holders can use if the site gets busted, but you are giving willing criminals identifying information that they can use for further crimes.

At any rate, I would consider any domain with "ebooks" in it suspicious. One of the cardinal rules of naming a business is that you don't box yourself into a narrow market.
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Old 07-06-2012, 04:38 PM   #10
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Would anyone knowingly buy from a pirate site?
The point is, he didn't know they were pirate sites otherwise he wouldn't be asking. Questions like this pop up quite regularly here, so it seems reasonable to assume that a lot of other people would be tricked by them too.

But here's the thing, not knowing they are pirate sites is not a defence when the copyright police come for you.
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Old 07-06-2012, 05:33 PM   #11
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[deleted] and [deleted] are pirate sites. A quick check is Harry Potter. The only legitimate source of Harry Potter ebooks is Pottermore. Anyone trying to sell you them for $1.50 is clearly a pirate.

Don't give your money to crooks.
A bit hard to follow this recommendation since somebody removed the name or the link to the sites.
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Old 07-07-2012, 02:09 AM   #12
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We always do once we've determined that a site is a pirate site. We don't want to give them free advertising.
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Old 07-07-2012, 02:15 AM   #13
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But here's the thing, not knowing they are pirate sites is not a defence when the copyright police come for you.
Can you point me to a case where a purchaser has been prosecuted for buying from a fake site?
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We always do once we've determined that a site is a pirate site. We don't want to give them free advertising.
If anyone wants to pirate they're not going to go to a site that charges them! If you really want to hurt them you'd do better to leave their name up and tell everyone they're ripoff artists.
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That's certainly a valid argument, but our site policy is not to permit naming of, or linking to, pirate sites.
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