![]() In literature, people tended to look on the idea of such things as wonderful miracles, to be celebrated - feeding a herd of people from only a few fish, or a fairy godmother spinning fancy clothes via magic. However, if it were possible to make copies of things via magic, without depriving people of such things, I don't think people would consider it theft. It's similar to theft only in the sense that you get stuff for free without permission.īefore electronic copies, the only way to do that would be to physically steal such a thing. I would be very interested to hear what moral axioms could justify the position of "I can take whatever I want from other people as long as it doesn't deprive them of a physical good". Put your own effort and time and resources and creative energy into it - then you can set whatever terms you want on its distribution.īelieving that you have the right to take whatever creative work that someone else put their effort into that you can get away with not paying for is one of the most extreme cases of entitlement I've ever witnessed, and it demonstrates an extreme selfishness and lack of respect for other human beings as equals. If you want a game or a TV show or a movie so badly - make it yourself. Unless an artist explicitly says "here's this public domain artwork, share it however you want" (which some people do!), pirating is stealing - you are taking the work of someone's hands without paying them for it, and it literally doesn't matter if you wouldn't have paid for it in the first place, because the work does not belong to you - it belongs to the creator and they get to set the terms of use. You are not entitled to someone else's creative work under any conditions other than those that they set, period. But separately from whatever meaning you attach to the word "piracy" - illegally downloading creative works is theft. Obviously there is no boat-stealing or plundering involved - no Johnny Depp or kraken here. I can't tell if you're taking the word literally or not. > There is no actual pirating going on when you copy a digital file. Once I try opening them on Calibre, I get an error message saying the files are protected by DRM.įunnily enough, it's possible to remove this DRM protection, but it's also not something completely legal, and makes me question why did I decide to legally buy the e-books in the first place.Īfter spending hours trying to buy e-books, having my Amazon account blocked, and downloading files that can't be transferred to my Kindle, the only conclusion I come to, is that I'm never buying e-books again. epub file is downloaded, and even though I can't transfer the files to my kindle on ADE, I download Calibre to transfer them. acsm format, and can only be opened on the Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software. After buying them, I download the files, which are in an. Not wanting to give up, I go to a different online store, Thalia, to buy the books again. My company uses Spendesk for managing funds, so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them.Īfter a few minutes my Amazon account is blocked for suspicious activity, and ALL my kindle library is wiped, and the funds are returned to my company.Ģ. ![]() Amazon doesn't have a shopping card for kindle books, so I started buying them one by one. I went to Amazon, since I have a kindle and didn't want to buy physical books. I wanted to give it back to some of the authors that still help me in my developer journey, by buying some of their work online and hopefully contributing to their income, but the following happened:ġ. The end of the year is coming, and I have some funds left from my company learning budget.
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