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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Since so many are harping on about publishers' and authors' "greed". What about consumers' greed? Isn't wanting something for free just as greedy?
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Not the same thing. There's a monopoly controlling the supply. If electronic goods were offered in an open market where after fixed costs such as hosting and royalties were added in and anyone would be able to sell beyond that at a profit then you might have a point as prices would go down to whatever the lowest profit per unit someone would accept is. At that point you might have a case for greed but there's nothnig greedy about not wanting to pay monopoly prices.