Pirating ebooks?

[schneefink]

I was talking about this recently and I'm wondering what you guys think.

Poll #20275

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 38

It's okay to pirate an ebook when:

never
3 (7.9%)

you already own the ebook but it's on a different device
27 (71.1%)

you already own a physical copy of the book
17 (44.7%)

you used to own a copy of the book but don't anymore
4 (10.5%)

the library has a copy of the book
2 (5.3%)

the author is a terrible person that you don't want to give money to
16 (42.1%)

you can't afford to buy it
9 (23.7%)

you can't afford to buy it right now but plan to buy it once you can
11 (28.9%)

you can't buy it for technical reasons
21 (55.3%)

other (please explain in a comment)
8 (21.1%)

Comments

[marginaliana]

Just seconding the country restrictions thing since I've heard it so many times from Australian friends. People want to pay for it! Why won't Amazon take their money???

(This is my problem with BBC shows, too. As an American, I would pay quite a bit of money for legit access to the BBC shows online. But they have no method of doing that. And I'd get BBC America, except that their programming selection is All Wrong and doesn't include 99% of what I'd want to watch. It's so frustrating.)

[schneefink]

I think the industry is probably still figuring out how best to offer/distribute stuff, but they should do it faster.