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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
The fact that a law is difficult to enforce doesn't make it a bad law.
What... e-books should be free for the same reason that Blacks should be free?!? Yeah... I'll have to give that some thought...
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very good there, Steve. I like it.
Where, please, do tell, have I stated in the course of this discussion that content creators should not be paid?
Go on...show me
Did you forget that i create digital content in the form of software? I get paid every day, enough so that I do not have to do it "on the side".
It is very disingenuous to put those words in my mouth, and quite a leap. People pay for digital content everyday. Lots of people. Lots and lots. Or as our freinds in the UK would say "loads" of them.
Its a matter of valuation, nothing more. It is a 100% Buyer's Market situation without question.
The only thing Sellers that do not wish to adapt to this market can really do is *not sell*...and unless you believe in Randian fantasy, it won't make a whit of difference. There will be no "epic declination of mankind" whatsoever; someone will always step in to fill the market void.
Some will do it to spite the fact that there is even a market