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I'm not afraid of the internet and didn't meant to imply that I was. I just like to manage my purchases in one place and given my interests, I have the luxury of being able to (sort of) do that. On the other hand, since I'm over thirty-five, I should just said I'm old and set in my ways and not going to go over to this new-fangled Google when I've got a perfectly good dedicated store that I've used since the day I got my first ebook reader. |
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OMG ! OMG ! OMG ! OMG ! I almost fell off my chair from the shock ! Admitting piracy !? That's so horrible, at least as horrible as sexually molesting animals or cooking and eating children ! I can't describe to you how much this information interests me, at least as much as how many hairs a flee on the other side of the world has on it's back ! Oh please what bollocks , the media should be writing about how many children get killed every year in massacres by african warlords funded by western capitalists after their natural resources, not moaning about ridiculous theoretical "losses" of various media producers from piracy ! I read these invented astronomic figures in the newspapers so often you'd think every rockstar and movie actress out there has to be begging for food dressed in rags in some dark alley ! You'd think there are no REAL problems out there... |
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I can honestly say that too.
I was a dread pirate long before the era of e-books ! They just expanded my repertoire... Definitely. There's one or two optimal sources for each type of media. Only naive people think Google is the main place to go to acquire things. Last edited by Enkidu of Abydos; 05-24-2011 at 10:54 PM. |
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05-25-2011, 10:17 AM | #98 | |
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A person who pirates an ebook could have bought the book (ebook or otherwise). Of course -- there are those who buy a book and then aquire an ebook to read when an ebook is not legitimately available just because they prefer to read ebooks. I would not consider that piracy. Lee |
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05-25-2011, 10:42 AM | #100 | |
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A person who pirates an ebook could just as well have checked the book out of the library or bought it used if they are that frugal. Especially for bestsellers like the Harry Potter books--these generally turn up all over used book sales and libraries after a short time. I find I have to purchase the more midlist type books more often if I want to read them, because I cannot rely on them turning up at used book sales or the library--and now some aren't even in print at all, just digital. |
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My own daughter had pirated music that I questioned her about. "It's free". Free?! Really?! You thought all this name brand, popular music that's sold in stores is "free on the internet".? I wasn't upset that she pirated some music. I was upset that she would rather claim to be an idiot than fess up to stealing. And one MIGHT be inclined to believe an 13yr old honor student is, in fact, really an idiot -- but the folks 35 and over surely are not. All the rest of the copyright stuff is valid for sure. But the MAIN force in action is obvious. If you can take something with nobody seeing you take it, with no chance of getting caught, and HECK you are only taking a copy anyway -- then folks do it. It's like trying to make the abortion debate about "what about the girls who's daddy's raped them" instead of "is abortion murder or not". Lee |
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Even your scenario can be shown to support the notion that piracy affects sales. As a kid, all my books came from the library, as gifts or from garage sales. When I became an adult with money of my own, I started buying books because it's a LOT more convenient to walk into a book store and buy a book, the specific book I want. Piracy gives folks all the benefits of buying new. Quick, convenient, get exactly the book you want. Such that SOME purchasing will stop. Lee |
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