Content vigilantes

In the context of a broader discussion I made an aside that I never buy books anymore because I just download them via pirate bay or Gutenberg.

Well, out came the content vigilantes…. stealing from authors etc etc.

I countered that one source of freebies was for books that are out of copyright and where the authors are long dead.

For the more current books I used the argument that in my book buying days I always purchased second hand books; a transaction that the authors never benefited from anyway.

Despite the fact this latter argument has a hole in it the size of a truck, this shut them up.

Thank God.