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Apart from 'Cliffsmith', 'avilla' just registered and started sending the same spam so this is obviously a determined as well as stupid bunch of people. If anyone gets PMs, please let us know and we'll add them to the banned list as well. We'll also be passing on full details to the owners of any copyrights so they can take legal action if appropriate.

Add 'acesup'to the list of offenders.

Add 'acesfull' to the list of offenders.

Magnus wrote:this material still has to be READ, UNDERSTOOD and PRACTISED to become of any use

You have hit the nail on the head. Anyone can download the 1,000 books on magic and mentalism from BitTorrent, or what have you, but how long is that going to take to digest? I'm not sure I'd be able to suck every ounce of useful information from Corinda's 13 Steps and Annemann's PMM (to mention two classics) before 2020, let alone burn through 10 or more other books in any meaningful way.

There is, of course, the legal side to this. Copying copyright-protected content is illegal, be it music saved to MP3 format or Derren's old out-of-print books. Making an unathorised copy of these is against the law. Assuming we all believe that we live in a lawful society, this means that it is wrong.

So, to summarise my late-evening post, fuelled by a rather acceptable Merlot: Anyone who downloads this stuff without buying it is naughty. And I'd predict that most of these thieves will never read it properly and are simply collecting. This scenario does not make them any less wrong, though. If someone wants to collect then they should pay.

I now declare an amnesty on pirated magic texts. Hand them in, ladies and gentlemen, and we'll say no more.

Ted wrote:I now declare an amnesty on pirated magic texts. Hand them in, ladies and gentlemen, and we'll say no more.

Alright, I admit it - my copy of 13 Steps is pirated.
I got it ARRRRRRRRRf price.

(Holy c*** (not the best), that's the worst joke I've ever heard in my life )

If anyone hasn't read the thread on illegal activities, see http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic29008.php