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Originally Posted by Trenien
- wanting to prevent the copying of files (books, songs, videos, soft) is wanting to reintroduce the scarcity that exists in the physical world to the digital medium where the very idea makes no sense.
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With respect, Trenien, you're confusing "scarcity" with "having value". The fact that you can make 10,000 copies of an e-Book trivially does not mean that the e-Book has no value to the reader or to the author, and that the author is not entitled to fair recompense for his or her work. Whether the book is distributed digitally or on paper does not alter that basic principle.