You. Are. Violating. Copyrights.

You. Intend. To. Do. Something. That. Violates. Copyrights.

Therefore. You. Intend. To. Violate. Copyrights.

Period.

Violating copyrights is not your end goal. Understood. You have a justification for violating copyrights. Understood. You think that that justification is good enough for you to do it. All of these are understood.

But you're clearly intentionally violating the law. No matter how much you think that you're in the right, under the law it isn't your decision. End of story.

As for Amazon, if you hadn't noticed they have a recommendation scheme. It may not be perfect, but it is intended to help people look for stuff that they'll like and might not know about. It is almost like Amazon wants you to find out about these people. Amazing, huh?

Incidentally there is a nice essay about this at [link|http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html|http://www.wired.com...e/12.10/tail.html].

Now maybe you find out about more people with your current strategy. I won't deny that ignoring copyrights entirely leads to more browsing and often more buying. Perhaps there are people you won't find on Amazon that you're encountering.

But it isn't ludicrous to suggest Amazon as a way to discover people that you don't know you'll like. They've deliberately set themselves up to make it reasonably easy to do that. Without violating copyright.

On the other hand it is ludicrous to maintain that your excuses for violating copyright somehow mean that you don't intend to go out and violate copyright. Unless you're 15 and don't have a clear understanding of the difference between, "This is what the law says" and "This is what I want to believe that the law says". Even then you'd still be wrong to maintain it.

Regards,
Ben