Topic: Against the rules? (Read 2681 times)

Because stealing is accomplished via websites like this. I've used free websites, which I listed at the bottom of this post, and knol.pw has a better selection than all of them. One of the things knol.pw accepts as payment is Amazon Gift cards -- to enable the organization to obtain more books for the website. Why would I have a problem contributing to the very thing that I am taking advantage of -- especially when the prices are as low as one cent.

I mean, why not just steal them yourself for free? Also, there's nothing wrong with me (except a higher than usual AQ score).

Liam

What the hell is wrong with you? It's literally pennies on the dollar, in fact they recently reduced the minimum price of books from 5 cents to one cent. Why are we paying them for stealing? They're trying to build a high quality archive. With free file sharing, you have to rely on what people have just so happened to upload...


Piracy of books is justified in my view, as paradoxical as that may sound. My reasoning is that the world would benefit greatly if everyone had a wealth of information at their fingertips. That's not currently possible outside of piracy, as the cost of a multitude of books is prohibitively expensive for most people. I actually find it very odd that authors charge money for their books: it's not going to get read! I understand the concept of receiving money for hard work, but it would seem to me that 2,000 people reading your book instead of 50 people outweighs everything. Another thing is that these days books are more and more plentiful, and therefore people are less willing to make commitments. Someone may find it prudent to keep 100 books as reference material, never reading a single one from cover-to-cover. Making a book absolutely free enables it to go viral. I would imagine that that's highly desirable in most cases; putting any kind of copyright restriction on it inhibits that process.

I'm against the piracy of movies and things like that. I don't think people are entitled to get movies for free. I believe the stunt people should receive royalties for their work. But information? The world would greatly benefit if everyone could simply have access to any book they wanted. google pushed the copyright envelope with Google Books. They were taken to court and a judge ruled in favor of Google, declaring that truly everyone benefited from Google's project. It follows that everyone would benefit even more if they could get permanent copies completely for free. Most of the people who download a pirated copy wouldn't have paid for it ever in their life even if they weren't able to get a pirated copy. At the very most, they would simply access it via a library, wherein they would probably violate copyright by scanning more then is allowable by law and the fact that they couldn't simply download a full copy is just an example of wasting peoples' time by putting up unnecessary road blocks.

nothing is against the rules unless it inhibits the forum mgmts ability to scam you suckers

Huh, I just noticed the piracy part. Why are you paying them for stealing...?

I would say don't post.

Liam

It's not okay to illegally download stuff, no matter how obscure the product is. Please don't, or I'll add you to my ignore list.

I don't... And my step dad has blocked all outgoing ports except 80 and 443, so it will never work.

Also, every site I visit is logged.

lol stop downloading porn then. Some torrent sites are blocked by ISP's in the Uk but you can get around them easily. Have you tried using a proxxy?

The main issue with torrents is that they are easily blocked... My step dad has blatently banned me from using them on the home internet.

But they're still 100% free. I'm not saying these sites don't have an advantage, but I'd take a cumbersome site over one where I had to send money to a dodgy site the vast majority of the time. And if you find a specialist private ebook tracker I'm sure there will be plenty of seeds. I'm also sure your sites are without their flaws too:

But you're just utilizing their services, you're not sharing. Torrenting is cumbersome. Direct downloads make more sense, at least for an endeavor like sharing a library full of books. Oh and another issue with torrents is that they're dependent on the seeders' computers being up and running.

Yeah, but there are plenty of torrent sites that have a better selection and people are usually willing to take that risk, especially when they can get stuff completely free. You could also have your IP logged by visiting this site as well.

Not as good a selection, not as convenient, and when torrenting, you run the risk of having your IP traced by a copyright authority.


Here's the thread I just made: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5425833

95% off? They're 100% off on Piratebay (other brands are available).

Of course you can share it.  This forum does not discriminate on the topics you can post.

Just don't post a referral code.  That will get your post deleted.

Yeah. Speaking of which, Usenet seems to have a better selection. Any recommended Usenet services?

My original question still stands.

Have you ever heard about usenet or torrent?

I found an amazing ebook piracy site where all ebooks are about 95% off. Very large selection. It takes Bitcoin. Would it be OK to share it?