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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 4680039" data-attributes="member: 1154">The distribution in the first place is definitely not legal, and in particular in many cases it is not moral. In fact, due to the nature of torrents, anyone who downloads from a torrent is guilty not only of procuring a pirated PDF, but of helping to distribute it.That said, I feel entitled to a digital copy of the book. I believe that someone should only have to buy something once and then should be able to use it however they want. In my mind, if you own an old 8-track tape, you're completely justified in downloading all the tracks from that tape illegally, even if there are cheap and legal alternatives, because you already purchased the content once. If you've got a movie on VHS or Beta or Laserdisk, then go ahead and download that too.It is content that matters to me, not format, and I think that's the heart of the disagreement here.Once you purchase some form of media, I believe you are entitled to use that media in any way, shape or form you want (limited to personal use, of course). Further, since it is not practical for the media distributors to provide every piece of media in every format someone might want it all for one price, I believe you are entitled to procure that media in the format of your choice by any means necessary. Further, since the infrastructure of piracy already exists, I believe that it is morally acceptable to use that infrastructure to get media to which you are entitled.And this will be the case until every book, movie, game and album I purchase comes with a perpetual license and supporting infrastructure allowing me to download the media for free, whenever I want, as many times as I want, in any format I want, to any device I want.</blockquote>

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