Moral justifications of pirating always reveal a sense of entitlement. You have to remember, Alden developed her knowledge through a lifetime study. There's a lot of opportunity cost in developing such specialization. Through that effort, she can provide novel insight into a topic which you would otherwise be less informed. By writing that book, she provides all of us a real service. Pirating is choosing not to provide Alden with reciprocal value for value.
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Writing books is not the way to make money. It used to be. It's a way to get your name established, get exposure and then be clever enough to exploit your new gained position. Famous musicians go on tour to make money, not by seling albums. Adapt to reality or get left behind.
You mean it's not a way to make money because people like you pirate? People who produce value in books, music, and other media need to adapt to your bullshit or get left behind? Got it.
So, you have never used an LLM or image generator? Ideas, data and information is non scarce, it can't be stolen, it can't be owned. Imagine the first person who invented fire, the wheel, the internet, the alphabet, mathematical equations, stories, music, etc to prohibit it from use. The prevention of sharing and using ideas stifles innovation and slows down improvement to the quality of life for humanity