Should there be a fee on knowledge about God

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I emailed the site to cheak the legality of free books and downloading them just as a FYI there are a lot of free book websites not entirely sure they are all legal either
 
John121 said:
I emailed the site to cheak the legality of free books and downloading them just as a FYI there are a lot of free book websites not entirely sure they are all legal either
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So? Let’s say for the sake of argument that this website is not doing this legally. Some random person emails them asking if what they’re doing is legal. They’re either going to lie and say they are, or simply not answer, as you could be a police officer trying to smoke them out.

What do you think the chances are that a book that is with a couple hundred dollars with a still-living author was legally uploaded there for free distribution?
 
Also, why are you so convinced you need this obscure Jewish text anyway?
 
they give there address on there page so if they were illegal and all the books they had were illegal they have millions in pretty sure they would of been raided by now so there might be a loophole in legislation for them to continue on !
 
John121 said:
they give there address on there page
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Which could be fake.
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pretty sure they would of been raided by now
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You’d be surprised. I had to Google this to be sure. There are 4,294,967,296 IPv4 addresses total available. How many of those are book sites (legal and illegal), do you imagine? How easy do you think it is to go and find these sites?
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there might be a loophole in legislation for them to continue on !
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You’re relying on a loophole to make what you’ve done legal and moral? Does this not concern you? If such a loophole existed, why wouldn’t it be prominently displayed to ensure their users that everything is fine?
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it Has a lot of Truth
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It’s not the full-truth though, is it? What does that book have that Catholicism, which contains the fullness of truth, can’t give you?
 
Loopholes are not generally shared openly with the public not all laws of the land are just and right they must be coherent with natural law I don’t think sharing ideas about God for money is just unless you are paying for cost of materials like I said profiting from knowledge of Godly things is not just other wise Jesus would not of turned over tables

I’m waiting on the email back from the website to see if it is legal or what information they have that might help me as I’m not a lawyer and I can’t determine the legality of a site I don’t operate/own

Honestly I’m new to the laws on sharing files I have been doing it for years and always thought it was ok because well it’s sharing.
 
John121 said:
I don’t think sharing ideas about God for money is just unless you are paying for cost of materials like I said profiting from knowledge of Godly things is not just other wise Jesus would not of turned over tables
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You don’t even know if the material is something Godly. Just that it’s Jewish. Judaism doesn’t have the fullness of truth, Catholicism does. His time spent in education wasn’t material? The costs he may have incurred getting books to write this one isn’t material to you? Getting the funding to conduct that research isn’t material to you? The software to upload that copy (assuming he allowed it) isn’t material to you? The costs of managing a server isn’t material to you?

He’s not profiting off of Godly things (“Want to hear the Gospel to be saved? $50 please!”). He’s profiting off of compiling and presenting obscure knowledge about one thing that may or may not be related to God. That is not in violation of natural law. Do you find it equally objectionable when someone sells a book over Jewish culture in the first century because Jesus was a first century Jew?
 
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Loopholes are not generally shared openly with the public
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Because that would seem to violate what the lawmakers had in mind, right? And those lawmakers would then amend the law to fix that, right?

Again, you’re hoping for some loophole to make what you’re doing legal? Some exploitation of the text to make what you’re doing okay? And that doesn’t concern you?
 
John121 said:
I don’t think sharing ideas about God for money is just unless you are paying for cost of materials
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Are you aware that there are many ways to find out about God without spending any money?

I’m getting the sense you’re looking for “better” or “super secret”. Or something to fast-track you to Heaven? Or something?
I’m just saying this so you can be aware of not approaching spiritual things with a superstitious (or even prideful) mindset.

All the classic philosophical and theological books are available for free—like on sites such as Project Gutenberg, or the library (you can even try inter-library-loan), or even thrift shops and yard sales.

Or is something in particular bothering you and you’re sure that the only answer is in some obscure book?

If something is bothering you, are you comfortable to say here, or maybe you have somebody IRL to turn to?
 
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I’m waiting on the email back from the website to see if it is legal
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Again, there are only two responses you are going to receive regardless of whether or not what they are doing is legal:

(1) “Oh yes, we’re 100% legal!”
(2) no response whatsoever

No website that is doing something illegal is going to forthrightly admit to some random inquirer, “Yes, what we’re doing is illegal. Sorry!” They are a pirating site. The people that aren’t above pirating other people’s content also aren’t above lying about it.

Often, these sites are based out of countries with no extradition and secular authorities that don’t care to follow up on it. That’s how they avoid going to jail. It doesn’t mean that they are a legitimate site.

I’m not sure why it’s so important to you to justify taking this book you did not pay for. Just delete it and either (a) buy the book; or (b) read another one of the hundreds of thousands of books that are available for free either from reputable websites or from your local library.

Heck, you might even check with your library about this book. At my local library, if there is a book someone wants that they do not carry and cannot get via inter-library loan, they’ll buy the book.
 
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