After English philology I am supposed to use English language well, but it is not always the case
I have also been taught to be an English teacher, even though it is not really what I would like to do in my life. I wanted to study English and I chose teachers college as it was in my home city
But my friends who studied there did not want to be teachers either. I think that few of the people who go to such colleges do it because they want to be teachers. Most of them believe that teacher's qualifications may come in handy
What I really want to be is a literature translator,though sometimes it seems to me that I might enjoy teaching as well...
I live in Poland, in a rather small but cosy city. What I understand from your profile is that you come from Russia. What part of Russia are you from?
To return to the topic, where I live books in English are either difficult to get or expensive. I have dreamed about being able to read books in English since my early childhood(I think the books about Anne of Green Gables really made me so interested in English language and culture - I loved the books as a little girl and I still sometimes return to them as the beginning of my love to English) and now it would be sad to give up reading in this language after I spent most of my life learning and studying it. This is why I became interested in ebooks and in fact in this way I read some of the books which are now my favourites. I hate reading books written by English authors in translations to my native Polish. I feel I'm wasting time doing this, as by reading in English I could learn some useful vocabulary, and anyway I am aware that it is a translation, influenced by the translator's perception of the original work, his experience of life etc. and not exactly what the author really wrote.
Going back to piracy, in fact there is no official document of the Catholic Church regarding breaking copyrights, but its being listed in the examination of conscience is kind of official. Those priests and theologians who consider it theft explain it in the following way: a given product(maybe let's stick to books) is available in shops to be bought at a certain price, so when someone copies it from the internet instead of buying it, this person deprives the author of income the writer would get if the person who downloaded the book would buy it. So for every download of his book the author loses the amount this book costs in a bookshop. This may lead to huge losses. There are some theologians who believe that even though downloading from the internet is generally evil, in some cases it may be acceptable, for instance if you want to have a back-up copy of something you have bought, or when something you have bought got broken, or when a student needs a certain book for his studies and buying it would be too expensive or ordering it e.g. from abroad would take so much time that he would not be able to learn from the book for the exams. Surprisingly, there are also theologians, or rather one theologian whose explanations on this subject I read, who believes that breaking copyrights is no sin at all providing you don't sell what you download and that the downloads are only for your and your family's personal uses. He claims that each person is entitled to access to the culture, and this right is more important that the author's putative income, adding that not everyone who downloads e.g. a book would actually buy it if there were no possibility of downloading. He even goes as far as saying that some artists expect too much money taking into account their own contribution to the work. But the majority of theologians considers it a serious sin. I guess they are right and they must base their opinions on the Bible and the teaching of the Church. Now I would like to read what Protestants think about this issue, since the Ordodox view is already given by Rusmeister
Sorry for such a long post, if this is a problem