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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kunadam" data-source="post: 4745933" data-attributes="member: 57610">I think the main question is why people buy books or pdfs.Anyone can have practically anything from "a complete stranger's HDD, that miraculously happened to be delivered to be" or whatever.I definitely do not buy anything out of ethics (as far as ethics goes I would not buy any digital media, information wants to be free!)Many of the OPs items are good answers particularly 3 (IMHO):a. Having the actual book is more convenient. I collect some lines, and there I prefer to have them on my selves.b. One show his/her gratitude/support by buying. In my mind I'm actually paying for the future, not so much for the actual product. I want them to continue producing stuffs.c. Price. Ultimately the part of pirating that actually hurt businesses (now this is important, I can download hundreds of movies, songs, books, whatever, it does not mean that someone suffer monetarily, as I would not have paid for them anyway)  is the part where one would pay if it would be cheaper. Because there there is a lost costumer.Pdf's are a good compromise here, as they are cheaper than the hard copy, and by that become affordable to people living in the less well-to-do part of the world. Sometimes I only buy much later when there is a sale, when the price gets right for me (I'm not playing actively any more, unfortunately, thus timing is not so much of an issue for me. I still collect RPG books)</blockquote>

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