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Originally Posted by mrkai
If it is a question of revenue its nonsensical because the author was paid for the words read.
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Check around sometime. You'll see that authors don't just get one lump sum for a single work, they get continued royalties for additional printings beyond a specified level... in other words, they get paid for each instance of a book being sold. Their publishers get paid for each instance of a book being sold. It's nonsensical to assume that an author should only be paid once when his book is sold twice.
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Originally Posted by mrkai
In this hypothetical case, the author was. Since in reality, in the digital domain, exclusive distribution rights are unenforceable and in practical reality, null and void, it makes little sense to attempt to find a solution that does not address this root cause.
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The fact that a law is difficult to enforce doesn't make it a bad law.
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Originally Posted by mrkai
Its like pining for the "good old days" when blacks and women "knew their place"...pine away. Its not going to happen. It was "right" then too. Things change.
It was perfectly legal to deny women property, rights and human dignity by making them second-class citizens, and to subjugate sentient human beings as chattel. And those fighting those laws via non-compliance or subversion thereof were criminal scum. Every punishment they received wasn't nearly enough for their flagrant disrespect for the law and the...property..of others.
It is a wonderful thing that others did not see the law as so absolute.
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What... e-books should be free for the same reason that Blacks should be free?!? Yeah... I'll have to give that some thought...