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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At one point you could get swaths of ebooks on pirate bay. Probably still could. With seeders. Soo…we know that’s not true.

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.