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Piracy? We've heard numerous times what r/books thinks about it. But how does c/books view it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml to c/books@lemmy.ml

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"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?

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[–] Qualanqui@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Not to mention that people that pirate that material are still going to talk about it, so even though they're loosing one sale to piracy they may be getting an extra 10 sales through word of mouth.