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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
There's still a lot of disagreement here of whether an e-book counts as a thing that can be stolen. This frankly amazes me. Maybe stealing, by strict legal definition, only covers physical objects... but an e-book is in fact a physical object
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No, it isn't and never will be. You may want to believe it is, the facts say otherwise.
An eBook is the essence of a physical book. It's the story the book contains in a non-physical form. It is an idea. You cannot own it. No author owns the stories he writes. Authors are granted, by the law, a limited monopoly on the stories they write. After that limit is reached, the story belongs to public - where the author got most of his ideas for the story in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
IP laws do not specifically state, but imply in their use, that ideas, concepts, patents, etc, are the secured property of the registered owner, for a finite amount of time
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Correct. Please explain how "finite amount of time" and "70 years past death" have anything to do with each other.
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It's not intended to last forever, the way physical property laws are...
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Then you agree that "intellectual property" doesn't exist.
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Without these protections, how would you expect someone to profit off of any labor that did not produce a physical product?
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How do they make a profit today? Nothing really changed except that making copies is now free.
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Now, I'm no Da Vinci (don't say it...) but I deserve the same rights and respect as he, and any other artist, to benefit from their work. And illicitly copying and distributing my work does not benefit me.
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Eric Flint and Cory Doctorow disagree with you. That illicit copying has made more people aware of you as an author.
And I'll state again, copyright today is disrespectful. To expect people to respect the disrespectful is not realistic.