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Originally Posted by bingle
I'm not saying it's OK to copy MS Word. I'm saying that people will copy it, OK or not. The same with music and movies and books. So if someone wants to make money writing ebooks, they had better come up with a different way of doing it.
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I'd like to think rather better about people. Most people, I believe, take the view that just because it's
possible to copy an eBook doesn't make it morally justifiable to do so.
If one follows the line of reasoning that because one
can steal it, people
will do so, nobody would buy a car because they could just go out and steal one. Stealing a car is not technically difficult, after all. Want a new TV? Break into your neightbour's house and steal theirs. You'd have to be stupid to pay for a TV when you can steal one for free. Wouldn't you?
I'd like to think that most people know the difference between "right" and "wrong" and will regard taking something without paying for it as wrong.