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Well - it kind of shows that authors are just like us.
With music - we hear music for free by turning on the radio so not paying for a few songs from a DL site does not feel like a crime (even if we are an artist).
With software - we get Browsers for free, lots of shareware for free and Billions of websites with information for free so we do not feel like its a crime if we have Microsoft Office suite on 2-3 computers.
With newspapers we get lots of information for almost free (including the output of talented writers and reporters) .
We get so much of this stuff (paid for by Advertisers) we dont feel the crime. In fact - we become indigent about having to see commercials on television or expect the government to rebate us for a digital conversion box so our previously free TV signals can still be free.
Let me make my point another way:
Someone once said:
"Prostitution wont ever become big business because there are so many talented amateurs out there."
The Advertising industry and the internet has flooded us with so much free music, bloggers, information, etc., we no longer feel we should pay for it. Even among people who make a living from music - I will bet they all have pirated songs on their ipod.
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