Quote:
Originally Posted by tompe
The interesting fact here is not how much books are distributed but how much less books are bought. People request books at secondhand bookshops and they get the books there without the publishes getting any money but I do not see any complaints about that.
|
True, but that's not the same issue as posting illegally-obtained e-books on the darknet for people to take for free. Book reselling is allowed by law, the same as reselling almost anything else is. If you want to equate that to the discussion, talk about how we can allow people to resell e-books they've legitimately bought.
Your example would more accurately relate to people who steal books from a bookstore, then resell them at a store.
Harry is specifically talking about people who post other people's works,
without permission, on the darknet, which is considered against the law in most countries. He is also talking about people who knowingly take those illegally-obtained works without paying for them... in most countries, the definition of stealing.