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Originally Posted by nekokami
While this may be true, in the strictest sense, most of the authors I read are able to write full-time, and I think their writing is much better because of this. They are able to devote their full attention to their craft. (Would you rather go to a doctor who is a doctor full-time, or one that has a day job delivering packages and only treats the sick in their "spare time?")
I don't support DRM, because I don't think it works. Pirates are able to break DRM, and in fact regard it as an attractive challenge to do so, whereas regular customers are frequently restricted unfairly by DRM systems. But I still think authors should be paid.
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The comparisons between doctors and writers is misleading because anyone literate can write (maybe not that well, that takes practice, but...) while to be a doctor takes a lot of hard work and learning today, about 11-12 years at least of
formal training; no Eragon here (or maybe that's the equivalent of the "psychic healers"
).
On the other hand during most human history many doctors were part time being priests, shamans, and whatever not though it still took some training outside of out and out charlatans
Coming back to drm, outside of the utilitarian reason that it does not work, and the moral reason that it is really bad, for me a very important reason to fight for its disappearances is that already we have an uphill fight for e-book acceptance by the public as it is. Do we want more hurdles??
Regarding writers, pro against day job, I am mixed. I think that if the authors are going pro because of success, it's a great thing, but then if they have to write Star Wars #11119 or Predator #777 (as Jeff Vandermeer) to pay the bills, it's more mixed.