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minus-squareSmoogs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·23 days agoAt one point you could get swaths of ebooks on pirate bay. Probably still could. With seeders. Soo…we know that’s not true.
minus-squareeskimofry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·23 days agopiracy is not the same as stealing. You having a copy of a bible as a PDF is fundamentally physically different from having a physical book. Publishers have perverted the concept of ownership by hiding the fact that there is no scarcity of digital items compared to physcial ones.
At one point you could get swaths of ebooks on pirate bay. Probably still could. With seeders. Soo…we know that’s not true.
piracy is not the same as stealing. You having a copy of a bible as a PDF is fundamentally physically different from having a physical book.
Publishers have perverted the concept of ownership by hiding the fact that there is no scarcity of digital items compared to physcial ones.
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