That's pretty smart until you learn that "the thief sells"
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Or that "the drunkard urinates on books for fun"
Yeah or what happens when it rains? Or someone drops a book into what appears to be an upper gutter running through the middle of the street?
The image is incredibly misleading. Its an indoor Bazar which is locked at night.
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Or even "the bored shithead sets fire to things"
or perhaps "the feathered rat takes refuge in high and low literature alike"
Or that "the nazi burns books"
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This is clearly a indoor Bazar with doors that lock on both ends, they leave them out cause it's not technically outside and ain't nobody breaking in to steal some books, shits heavy and probably doesn't sell for all that much on the black market
Yeah it's a cute quote but that's obviously not outside. Jeez
Me, stealing every pdf I can find:
But the reader does not steal, the clear logical conclusion is that piracy isn't theft if you read the book.
Do you read them?
Sometimes 🥲
It's a shame the people who you stole them from don't have them any more...
Next you'll tell me that you wouldn't download a car.
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I also don't steal. I download my books from online copies, which is copying, not stealing.
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The epubs in my PIRATED MEDIA folder begs to differ
Piracy is not theft. You have not deprived anyone of something they would otherwise have.
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Here people even "steal" books from public bookcases and sell them.
For people who aren't familiar, let me explain: These public bookcases are a weatherproof shelf, old phone booth or something in the streets. The concept is you can take any book and leave any book. There are no written rules and you can keep a book if you like or just read it and put it back. In recent years people started to scan the barcodes and checked what books they can sell. There is a debate going on if people should mark these books or not, so they can't be sold.
Who tf is buying normal books from the local black market in 2025 is my real question here
It's more of an online market. eBay, Amazon to a certain extent, there's loads of book specific ones and some that are for used items generally and allow books. And unless marked it's not the black market at all. I mean obviously the book is stolen, but it's just entering the used market as opposed to being sold through a fence or whatever
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Sure looks like a regular Street, you know, with a roof and stuff.
You might call it a shopping arcade. Pretty common in many cities, and likely is a public street, despite having a covering.
Sure looks like a regular Street, you know, with a roof and stuff.
One of those Iraqi shōtengais unoe.
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There’s a wet gutter down the center…
They should learn to read and find out the shit Sheherazade said about them.
I think that's just one way of saying they're not prints worth stealing
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But what if the thief steals the books not to read them, but just to fill their house with books and make themselves seem erudite and intelligent?
I'm imagining the most extreme version of this, where a man is living in a house that is a veritable library. Yet, they're actually illiterate.
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I have stolen books and then read them, so ...
At one point you could get swaths of ebooks on pirate bay. Probably still could. With seeders. Soo…we know that’s not true.
piracy is not the same as stealing. You having a copy of a bible as a PDF is fundamentally physically different from having a physical book.
Publishers have perverted the concept of ownership by hiding the fact that there is no scarcity of digital items compared to physcial ones.
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And it doesn't rain
It’s Iraq, not Arrakis.
The vandal does not read, either.
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