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> And thanks to pirates, too, because many stuff that I could not literally afford I like to call them Good Samaritans because I also cannot literally afford t

> And thanks to pirates, too, because many stuff that I could not literally afford I like to call them Good Samaritans because I also cannot literally afford to buy the interesting things I want. In the age of perpetual copyright and DRM, it would be a much less interesting world for me if I had to pay for everything. Some of the things I am most interested in cannot be found in the public library. For example, "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche on Amazon is $3.99 for the eBook, $17.99 Hardcover and $6.99 for paperback. Nietzsche has been dead for 122 years, so why do I have to pay? No one currently alive had anything to do with helping Nietzsche produce his work. Pirate Bay to the rescue, I downloaded the collected works of Friedrich Nietzsche (72 books, essays and other works) for the total cost of FREE. How amazing is that? I'm not sure I could even do that by paying for it. Thank you to anyone who made that torrent available (or similar torrents.) You're doing God's work.

webmaven 5y ago
> For example, "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche on Amazon is $3.99 for the eBook, $17.99 Hardcover and $6.99 for paperback. Nietzsche has been dead for 122 years, so why do I have to pay? No one currently alive had anything to do with helping Nietzsche produce his work. > Pirate Bay to the rescue, I downloaded the collected works of Friedrich Nietzsche (72 books, essays and other works) for the total cost of FREE. How amazing is that? I'm not sure I could even do that by paying for it. You have a good point, but chose a bad example. For works that are public domain or otherwise out of copyright (at least, non-obscure ones), you have fairly good legal download options, starting with Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779 https://archive.org/search.php?query=Nietzsche&and[]=creator%3A%22nietzsche%2C+friedrich+wilhelm%2C+1844-1900%22 https://archive.org/search.php?query=Nietzsche&and[]=creator... Within that set of public domain works, the most popular ones often have somewhat nicer (but still free) editions from places like Standard Ebooks, Feedbooks, and Manybooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=Nietzsche https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=Nietzsche https://www.feedbooks.com/search?protection=without_drm&query=Nietzsche&sort=top https://www.feedbooks.com/search?protection=without_drm&quer... https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Nietzsche https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Nietzsche
- mwattsun 5y ago
  This is great. I didn't realize this. I was confused when I saw Amazon was charging so I went to PB
  - webmaven 5y ago
    Amazon has free stuff too, but they've made those harder to find, you can't generally get there by browsing. But if you search for what you want and then sort results by price, that usually does the trick.
halostatue 5y ago
If you’re reading the original German, then you’re right. If you’re reading an older translation, you may also be right. If, on the other hand, you’re talking about a modern translation, then you’re not necessarily recognizing the value that translators provide (or take away) from a work. Also, for books, it’s always worth trying Gutenberg, first: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779

webmaven 5y ago

> For example, "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche on Amazon is $3.99 for the eBook, $17.99 Hardcover and $6.99 for paperback. Nietzsche has been dead for 122 years, so why do I have to pay? No one currently alive had anything to do with helping Nietzsche produce his work. > Pirate Bay to the rescue, I downloaded the collected works of Friedrich Nietzsche (72 books, essays and other works) for the total cost of FREE. How amazing is that? I'm not sure I could even do that by paying for it. You have a good point, but chose a bad example. For works that are public domain or otherwise out of copyright (at least, non-obscure ones), you have fairly good legal download options, starting with Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779 https://archive.org/search.php?query=Nietzsche&and[]=creator%3A%22nietzsche%2C+friedrich+wilhelm%2C+1844-1900%22 https://archive.org/search.php?query=Nietzsche&and[]=creator... Within that set of public domain works, the most popular ones often have somewhat nicer (but still free) editions from places like Standard Ebooks, Feedbooks, and Manybooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=Nietzsche https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=Nietzsche https://www.feedbooks.com/search?protection=without_drm&query=Nietzsche&sort=top https://www.feedbooks.com/search?protection=without_drm&quer... https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Nietzsche https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Nietzsche

mwattsun 5y ago
This is great. I didn't realize this. I was confused when I saw Amazon was charging so I went to PB
- webmaven 5y ago
  Amazon has free stuff too, but they've made those harder to find, you can't generally get there by browsing. But if you search for what you want and then sort results by price, that usually does the trick.

halostatue 5y ago

If you’re reading the original German, then you’re right. If you’re reading an older translation, you may also be right. If, on the other hand, you’re talking about a modern translation, then you’re not necessarily recognizing the value that translators provide (or take away) from a work. Also, for books, it’s always worth trying Gutenberg, first: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779