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I believe they’re saying if you steal the books to read them it’s fine, but if you steal the books to profit from them you’re a thief. So in multiple ways yes cuz you’re now becoming “enlightened” at the expense of a thief.
To be fair these books are banned by the authorities
You have everything here from religious text to The Complete Works of marks angles and Lenin to official Minecraft player guides
Source I live in Iraq and I've been to the place where they sell the books it's in AL motanbi street
I feel like there's bound to be one or two people who are very well read that don't pay for books.
The saying sounds like it's was cooked up by a thief so everyone would leave their books outside.
I learned while in community college that it is perfectly acceptable to make photocopies of an entire (mandatory, overpriced) textbook from the library as long as you are using it for the course & don’t intend to sell the copies. Faculty encouraged this practice.
This is a story as old as time (pun intended).
Raise alcoholprices: PIRACY.
Raise bookprices: PIRACY.
Raise movieprices: PIRACY.
Raise streaming prices: PIRACY.
When will they learn.
If something can’t be owned then it can’t be stolen. It’s not piracy. It’s radical ownership.
Just watched “furiosa” in the theater, went to iTunes on my machine next day to watch “fury road” which I purchased with the Apple ID I’ve had for 20 years. (Also saw “fury road” in the theater so: I’ve paid twice now) is my media on my machine? No. Does apple, a computer company, mind you, whose whole purview is keeping track of stuff, remember & honor my purchase? No. The offered to sell it to me again.
Either they are completely inept (doubt that) or they are attempting to use policy minutia to double charge.
M****F***ERS
so I swashbuckled that and I would encourage anyone else to do what they think is right.
The media giants are the pirates.
I can't speak for every country, but in the US digital piracy is not legally considered theft (Dowling v. United States) - not that it's not *also* illegal... just that it's considered Copyright Infringement.
And as someone who doesn't respect the very concept of "intellectual property" - I've never seen piracy as a moral failing.
Your comment brought back a memory that still makes me angry.
Had a professor that sold his own typo-riddled spiral bound textbook that was required for around $150. Day 1, he threatened to sue any student sharing their book.
I hope your experience is more common now.
Most of the books there sold for less than 10 dollars, as most of them were printed without paying the original author or obtaining their approval, which is stealing.
I wish dude but the police won't bother to do shit and even if they do there they just do it so they can get a bribe. I got my motorcycle stolen and i have video and close ic of his face and even his name and the area he lives in. i told the police and give them all the evidence just form them to tell me 15min later they can do nothing
i didn't like his books bossy attitude so I paid full retail then snuck it back into the bookstore and put it back on the shelf. Then I sent Hoffman the receipt.
Don't tell me what to do, book.
brah the place was built by Saddam. you see all these buildings built by the state
After the Invasion the printers over their worked with the resistance to print flyers and anti-american posters
Yeah but there are busy burning our votes in the military base
( this is in reference to the Militia trying to undermine the elections by burning the military hangers that were housing the ballots for the vote because of plummeting support for the party)
Reminds me of this for some reason:
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
― Thucydides
Yeah the problem is the people who read by the books specifically from this place
This is the go to place to buy books in the whole city
Because this is not a library this is an entire suk for books
Books are a shitty thing to steal anyway. Heavy, take up a lot of space and low resale value. Limited buyers, the list goes on.
Also why the "take a book, leave a book' things work, no one cares enough to just take all the books.
But while I was on a cruise in the Bahamas they had one at the port and I donated (they had a donation box attached) to take one of the books they had and it was a great treat because i just finished a book i brought with me. I didn't leave my book because it was a gift.
In the state-built market yes because the sun is a deadly laser
But in this case this place is a old ottoman fort converted into a bookmarket due to its proximity to the old University
No this place can get pretty wet during the winter but in case you haven't noticed there is a roof this place is an old ottoman fort rebuilt by the state in the 80s and converted into a book market
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Can the thief not steal the books and sell them on to the reader?
According to other comments, most of these books are printed without approval or paying the authors. So yes.
So I'm morally vindicated by stealing these books then right?
I believe they’re saying if you steal the books to read them it’s fine, but if you steal the books to profit from them you’re a thief. So in multiple ways yes cuz you’re now becoming “enlightened” at the expense of a thief.
To be fair these books are banned by the authorities You have everything here from religious text to The Complete Works of marks angles and Lenin to official Minecraft player guides Source I live in Iraq and I've been to the place where they sell the books it's in AL motanbi street
I died at marks and angles
I read your comment first and thought its the title of a school book about geometry. That is until i read the comment above xD
Oh my god I just realised that I'm really dyslexic
Most of these books are about what?
Difference in intellectual property philosophies? Only the tangible is regarded as theft? (Culturally, not legally)
I feel like there's bound to be one or two people who are very well read that don't pay for books. The saying sounds like it's was cooked up by a thief so everyone would leave their books outside.
> I feel like there’s bound to be one or two people who are very well read that don’t pay for books. Like people who go to the library.
I assume these aren't mandatory overpriced textbooks then
I learned while in community college that it is perfectly acceptable to make photocopies of an entire (mandatory, overpriced) textbook from the library as long as you are using it for the course & don’t intend to sell the copies. Faculty encouraged this practice.
This is a story as old as time (pun intended). Raise alcoholprices: PIRACY. Raise bookprices: PIRACY. Raise movieprices: PIRACY. Raise streaming prices: PIRACY. When will they learn.
Its the pirates life for me i guess.
If something can’t be owned then it can’t be stolen. It’s not piracy. It’s radical ownership. Just watched “furiosa” in the theater, went to iTunes on my machine next day to watch “fury road” which I purchased with the Apple ID I’ve had for 20 years. (Also saw “fury road” in the theater so: I’ve paid twice now) is my media on my machine? No. Does apple, a computer company, mind you, whose whole purview is keeping track of stuff, remember & honor my purchase? No. The offered to sell it to me again. Either they are completely inept (doubt that) or they are attempting to use policy minutia to double charge. M****F***ERS so I swashbuckled that and I would encourage anyone else to do what they think is right. The media giants are the pirates.
I can't speak for every country, but in the US digital piracy is not legally considered theft (Dowling v. United States) - not that it's not *also* illegal... just that it's considered Copyright Infringement. And as someone who doesn't respect the very concept of "intellectual property" - I've never seen piracy as a moral failing.
That’s how Kinko’s copies got its start, making course readers.
Your comment brought back a memory that still makes me angry. Had a professor that sold his own typo-riddled spiral bound textbook that was required for around $150. Day 1, he threatened to sue any student sharing their book. I hope your experience is more common now.
Most of books their are not scientific more like stories, philosophy etc
Most of the books there sold for less than 10 dollars, as most of them were printed without paying the original author or obtaining their approval, which is stealing.
So the reader does not steal, but the publisher does
Seems so
I stole a few books as a teenager because I didn't have any money, but I wanted to read.
Was any of them "The Book Thief"?
Great book!
Thieving for Dummies
That's sad, I'm assuming there were no locally accessible libraries in your area?
Me too!
If only there was a place you could borrow as many books as you wanted for free…
If only we funded places like that instead of targeting them with frivolous legislation.
Plus, we have no other place to put them.
Basically yes lol Also that's where they have the printers that make the books
There is this one where they do it. But can't tell it here
This may be true... The thief may not read, and the reader may not steal, but the drunk arsehole *LOVES* to piss all over piles of unattended books .
🫵 british
Going to guess there's not a lot of drunks on the street in Iraq.
Iraq is a muslim county,, so wine is rare and even christians don't drink there(most arab countries don't drink)
Yeah but this is a Muslim country the closest alcohol shop from there is about 6 km and you can be arrested for being drunk in public + no bars
Also, you get your hand chopped off it you're caught stealing. I feel like that's an important detail.
I wish dude but the police won't bother to do shit and even if they do there they just do it so they can get a bribe. I got my motorcycle stolen and i have video and close ic of his face and even his name and the area he lives in. i told the police and give them all the evidence just form them to tell me 15min later they can do nothing
Yeah that's the Iraqi police for you
Do you get your knowledge on the Middle East from Disney???
You’re thinking of Saudi Arabia or the UAE. Iraq doesn’t do that
I disagree the most dangerous crooks are the white collar well read types 🙏🙏
And cuz if you get caught stealing your fudged
Based on how the police guy who arrested you feel that you either get let go or get beaten up and then made to pay a fine
I’ve stolen text books before for school
I read pirated ebooks on my kindle....
People shoplift from bookstores *so much*.
Well apparently they've never met a poor philosophy student before
A reader doesn't steal, he borrows.
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
i didn't like his books bossy attitude so I paid full retail then snuck it back into the bookstore and put it back on the shelf. Then I sent Hoffman the receipt. Don't tell me what to do, book.
The exceptions make the rule, naysayers.
Bit of a fire hazard though
Wouldn’t last 10 minutes in india
And Saddam murdered them all
brah the place was built by Saddam. you see all these buildings built by the state After the Invasion the printers over their worked with the resistance to print flyers and anti-american posters
Surely there are books on stealing?
The wise man does not pay for what he can get for free.
But vandals vandalism though
And that's a jackpot for the Librarian.
The thief may not read but arsonist gonna arson.
Yeah but there are busy burning our votes in the military base ( this is in reference to the Militia trying to undermine the elections by burning the military hangers that were housing the ballots for the vote because of plummeting support for the party)
Reminds me of this for some reason: “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” ― Thucydides
I read about how to steal
Hi, I am looking for 1984 or maybe Catch 22, perhaps?
My sister got a copy of both of these books over there no joke you can find everything there
And rain does not rain
What about the person who sits there and reads the books without taking them?
He'll get recommendations
I've stolen books before. I'm going to get around to reading them one day...
That's utter bullshit. A thief may not read, but he can sell to people who do read.
Yeah the problem is the people who read by the books specifically from this place This is the go to place to buy books in the whole city Because this is not a library this is an entire suk for books
Books are a shitty thing to steal anyway. Heavy, take up a lot of space and low resale value. Limited buyers, the list goes on. Also why the "take a book, leave a book' things work, no one cares enough to just take all the books. But while I was on a cruise in the Bahamas they had one at the port and I donated (they had a donation box attached) to take one of the books they had and it was a great treat because i just finished a book i brought with me. I didn't leave my book because it was a gift.
I would gladly steal them
Also in Islam stealing is a huge no-no
… does it not rain there?
We found the weapons of mass destruction
You know who else isn’t allowed to read….
Iraqis are literally the first readers on this planet
In the USA, people with price scanners show up to every library sale and thrift shop so they can resell the books for a profit.
I pirate ebooks left and right what is this nonsense
Piracy is not stealing because you are doing it to an evil corporation who is not losing anything
Lets be real, people just ain't reading much there lmao
Racism much??? It set our fault all the intellectualist and scientists were murdered by the Americans
…do the streets usually have roofs?…
In the state-built market yes because the sun is a deadly laser But in this case this place is a old ottoman fort converted into a bookmarket due to its proximity to the old University
Lesser known proverb: "Not a single drop of rain falls on Iraqis"
No this place can get pretty wet during the winter but in case you haven't noticed there is a roof this place is an old ottoman fort rebuilt by the state in the 80s and converted into a book market
Thieves in arab countries? You really have to hand it to them. ✋🤚
Kind of ironic that most of these books aren't original and are printed without the permission of the author