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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 9617377" data-attributes="member: 2013">C'mon Morrus, you know that's a "do you still beat your wife?" sort of question.Perhaps I should clarify when I made the statement above, every one of them was referencing physical books (I grew up before e-books existed - I know, I'm old!). I had a deep and abiding love affair with my local public libraries from the time I was about 4 years old (when I was 5 years old I got an award for reading 400 books during the school year... and it wasn't stuff like illustrated 32-page "The Berenstein Bears" - it was all-text 200+ page stuff like "Little House on the Prairie"). Generally I went through at least one backpack full of physical library books per week from the ages of about 8 through 16. Figure 20 books per week times 50 weeks times 9 years... 9,000 books at least. I literally read every (physical) book at my school libraries and almost every book at my local public library in that time period.I've probably read much more than that if I count e-books. I do respect the creative process and will try to pay for e-books whenever I can. My DriveThruRPG.com library currently lists 1667 items (all paid for with a few free I suppose). I have a lot of PDFs from the old "ESR" service WotC did before they moved their works to DTRPG... again all paid for (except for the few WotC made available as free downloads, but as the copyright holder, they are entitled to make them available for free and I am within my rights to download copies from them).That said, as far as torrenting books, I am of the opinion that if I own a physical copy of a book, it is not unethical (though perhaps strictly illegal) to download a copy of that same book. That's of course a completely separate discussion and probably not fit for this thread. But in general, I don't consider myself entitled to "steal" something when I can buy it... and if I can't afford it, I'll do without.</blockquote>

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