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Keep your piracy to yourself. And if you are interested enough in the book to want to read it or listen to it, why don't you consider buying it? I'm sure you spend your money on far more worthless pursuits.Originally Posted by dakidski
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Keep your piracy to yourself. And if you are interested enough in the book to want to read it or listen to it, why don't you consider buying it? I'm sure you spend your money on far more worthless pursuits.
I support a lot of piracy... but not of books.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
formerly The Gas, LordPerrin
Books are the lamest possible thing to complain about pirating. There are these things called "public libraries" that are entirely legal and produce the same end result.
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Don't be retarded. Pirating books is as lame as you can get.
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Sorry. In all honesty I'm going to buy it - mainly because I support his cause, but also because of the intense media coverage. I hate it when people discuss books or movies and I can't participate while they are still hot. The delayed european releases are one of the reasons I never participate in the cinemania subforum.
Problem is that it is not available here yet, not even in england. I attached a picture to prove I buy books.
A library does not have infinite copies of a book that it lets people keep for free. It has one or a few copies of a book that it paid to obtain that it can lend out to patrons. Once the supply is all checked out, any other patron waiting to check out the book will have to wait until one of the copies comes back in. At least that's how it works around here. It's very different from pirating.
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Buy the ebook.
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formerly The Gas, LordPerrin
I said the end result was the same, not the entire process.Either way, the user gets to read the book without paying. Granted they don't get to keep it forever, but that's much less relevant with books than with music or videogames - how many books have you re-read in your life? - plus they can always check it out again.
The end result is not the same. (Don't roll your eyes at me.) One digital copy of a book can replace all the copies in all the libraries and all the bookstores in the world. Read that again: One digital copy of a book can replace all the copies in all the libraries and all the bookstores in the world.
When a popular book comes out, like say a Harry Potter book or something like the Da Vinci Code, the public library copies are checked out almost immediately. So the average person ends up going to the store to buy it. That makes sense - you want something, you go to the store and get it.
On the other hand, if we are advocating piracy, then let's think of what you would do when Harry Potter came out then. Just like before, the library will be out of copies, so you would just obtain it illegally by digital means. It's worse than going to the local bookstore and stuffing it under your jacket, because if you did that, at least there's a chance the bookstore would order another copy to replace it.
This is what I hate the most about our generation: the way we try to justify our selfish actions instead of being honest with ourselves. If you are a common thief, don't try to paint yourself as some righteous revolutionary or otherwise use some flawed logic to make yourself feel better. I stole when I was a kid, I have stolen as an adult - I call it stealing, not borrowing or turnabout or any such nonsense. Now that I have a more mature outlook, I buy the things I want when I can find them and afford them, and I forgo or defer purchase of the rest. Christopher Hitchens does not owe me a copy of his book and I do not have any reason to steal from him.
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