I'm probably an asocial type. I've never understood people who consider certain internet communities their real home and emphasize this in every possible way. This is especially true for places where warez is distributed, meaning all sorts of trackers and forums. These are essentially places where crowds of freeloaders gather, who don't even want to admit they're pirates. Instead, visitors to such warez sites invent excuses for themselves: "we take from the rich bourgeois, they don't care anyway," "we wouldn't have bought it in real life anyway," "prices are too high," "I only buy what I already liked," or they simply don't think about the moral side of the issue.
There is a lot of truth in these words, as I already wrote, but the denizens of warez sites consider them an absolute truth, which is the only thing that matters in this issue. It seems to me that, for the most part, on their part this is self-deception to soothe their conscience. I really shouldn't judge them, because they are probably better off and happier this way, and I'm quite the pirate myself. This doesn't change the fact that people in such places are ultra-passive consumers of content, capable at most of formatting their post with a good description and screenshots. Worshipping such hangouts is akin to worshipping corporations or even deities, and probably stems from the human herd instinct.
Here is an occasionally good Sinfest comic on the subject.
One can still understand the feeling of pride in belonging to communities that create their own content, like LiveJournal or Leprosorium.
By the way, I downloaded Sinfest as a single archive from an unknown Czech guy and loaded it onto my Sony Reader. Fortunately, a cool program appeared for formatting content for the Reader and similar devices called pdflrf, and libprs500 is constantly being improved too. I'm amazed - these are powerful programs, they do their job an order of magnitude better than the Reader's original software. At the same time, they were written as a hobby, and the author of libprs500 is actually a physicist. Open source is a force after all! At least sometimes.
With the advent of these two programs, I can safely recommend buying the Sony Reader, especially if you aren't bothered by small fonts in converted PDFs and DJVUs. But it's probably better to wait for a phone with a flexible e-ink screen anyway, or even color e-paper, which is just around the corner.