[ SECRET POST #6016 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6016 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

IDK

The thing to me is that, for people who are willing to read ebooks rather than physical books and who know how to pirate, any money that you spend on books is a result of a conscious choice; it's money that you don't have to spend but are choosing to spend anyway. So it's hard for me to get too judgmental about someone who is, at the end of the day, still spending money on books.

[(Anonymous)]

Pirating actively harms libraries, though. Libraries make decisions on which books to purchase/which ebooks to renew based on how many people check them out, so if a ton of people decide to pirate instead of check out an ebook, the library may decide that there's not enough interest for them to renew that particular ebook and then other people who might have wanted to read it through the library won't be able to.

[(Anonymous)]

Libraries.

[(Anonymous)]

Pirating is more convenient and easier than using libraries. Choosing to use libraries is entirely an optional thing in the same way that spending money on books is. It is good to do it but people who spend money on books sometimes or who use libraries to get books sometimes are still doing more to support books than they actually have to do.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I’m personally not against people pirating and buying later when they can. I’d be a hypocrite if I was. But I’ll still say that something being more “convenient and easier” isn’t actually a good argument in it’s defense. Convenience is sometimes a good thing, sometimes it’s not so good. In this case it’s...complicated. But it can just be just as easily argued by people completely against pirating that taking the easier option instead of the more honest option isn’t the right thing to do, even if the more ethical option is harder and requires waiting. Good things come to those who wait, patience is a virtue, nothing good in life comes easy, etc etc.

I’m really more nitpicking your choice of words rather than arguing against opinion, honestly. Because a lot of counter arguments could be made against your wording specifically. I’m sorry for the unnecessary quibble.

[(Anonymous)]

Never seen pirating framed as supporting books, libraries or publishing before. Admit to stealing, to taking support from authors, bookshops and libraries, and have done with it.