“Piracy” here is used in the context of books and all sorts of manuscripts.
r/books have three main arguments against it:
- It is technically theft
- It damages the author’s job and income (as well as the publisher, illustrator…etc.)
- Why go through the tedious path of pirating books when you can borrow the books from a library legally and for free.
What’s your reply to those arguments? Are they satisfactory?
My local library uses some digital library that doesnt work with my e-reader. How am I suppose to borrow ebooks? Most books I read are too heavy to lug around all the places my ereader has been.
What about digital paywalls on research papers, I think those should be freely accessible to the general public if grant money was acquired for said research.
Yeah I pirate some books here and there, wish I could just borrow digitally from my local library, instead sometimes I use the largest library known to man.