It is laughable that Slashdot posters are arguing AGAINST piracy only because many are developers. Only developer piracy is immoral.

Simple. Just boycott those publishers and authors who wish to protect their creation.

Then pursue all the cheap and free books you can find.

That solution was easy.

Cory Doctorow Who??

Free books = poor quality
Near free books = still poor quality

Ask Rosetta Stone if they will sell e-books with unlimited copies.
They won't even sell as e-book because they sell higher quality.

It/is/all/junk/then/you/die

And what has Government Science created? Nothing.
* Finally after NASA wasted $billions, we get private space tourism.
* Department of Energy never produced a single drop of oil.

Pay for it. Rosetta Stone cost thousands of dollars because quality costs money.
A 'free' foreign language will waste far more money in lost opportunity cost.
It is better that the child get a job, earn money, buy Rosetta Stone, and learn quickly instead of wasting time on some knee jerk free language that is not free with your time.

Stuff is free for a reason, it is poor quality junk.
BitTorrent cannot guarantee integrity and authorship. Anybody can modify free content and re-upload it as trash and deception. Pity the children.
Only paid content can guarantee quality. Nothing's free. * cough, Economics, cough *. Put that in your Education pipe and smoke it.

The only trusted uploader is the original owner-author-artist. The alleged trusted uploader would have to directly purchase all media from an authorized store.
He is too cheap to buy it.
Deal with it.

Have you ever bought a SONY gadget on the internet?? How do you know it was not fake, inferior junk, knockoff from China? You do not, not unless you buy the product from an original, authorized seller.
Deal with it.

I used to download files, modify them, and upload them back up. Some of the music, books and video are un-original fraud because it it fun to dupe people.
Deal with it.

There is no honor among thieves.
There is no honor among pirates.
You just cannot ever trust 'free'.
Deal with it. LMAO!

Solving piracy is simple. Authors & owners just release junk copies of ebooks. Who will pirates complain to?? That is why collectivism fails, it has no integrity of content.

Piracy does not create infinite perfect copies. There are a lot of junk copies of media. Since ANYBODY can make a copy, pirate ebooks are corrupted. Where there is no integrity, there is no trust.

Junk copies of ebooks are released all the time. Pirates can never trust their copy is authentic. MD5 is useless. Books are made with altered versions, so the only person who knows the authentic version, is the owner / author or the honest buyer.

Piracy creates junk and wastes peoples time reading junk.

There is no free lunch. That line I read from an authentic book, so I know it is true. lol

If you read pirated ebooks, you cannot trust what is inside your head. Nothing is free.

Copyright is also confidential. It is limited access determined by the originator. Likewise Credit Card numbers are confidential.

Music songs and Credit Card numbers are both copyright protected. Credit Card numbers have legal force of law. Music should but does not.

Piracy has been around for 1000s of years. No problem, as long as worst offenders are controlled, such as, closing down music copy websites. The law is just taking time to catch up. When it does, the quality of music will be better instead of junk quality caused by current MP3 pirates.