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Originally Posted by msundman
Oh, so now people should not be able to buy books until they are 18 years of age? Or maybe children should be able to sign legal contracts? Or how is this supposed to work?
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If the author decides to sell his work only to people older than 18 years then it is his decision. The author sells a good (book) and it is his decision to whom he will sell it.
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Originally Posted by rlauzon
You have asserted that authors need the ability to protect their works when their works are in an electronic format. Yet, as you admit, they have no such protection today.
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Of course they have. It is far more difficult to copy paper books than ebooks.
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So you need to justify why they need more rights for their electronic versions of their works than they have for the paper version.
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Well, actually they have less rights with ebooks. As mentioned before a paper book is a physical good. If you lend it, you are not able to use it anymore until you get it back. You can lend an ebook and still read it yourself. A paper book can only be used once at a time. You cannot divide it or multiply it. Ebooks can usually be used on at least four difference e-reading devices.
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Then you should be able to quote the law that gives an author such a right. I can find no such law.
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Quote the law that says I don't have to sell you my car. Can't find it? So that would mean, that I do have to sell it to you. Right?
If an author sells you a book under the premise that you are not allowed to lend it (just an example), than there is a legal contract between the seller (author) and a buyer (you). If you don't like certain terms in that contract, don't buy the book.
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Originally Posted by astra_lestat
If ebooks were sold DRM-free....most people would just buy them, like they buy LIT files now strip DRM yet do not upload the files to the darknet.
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Audio CDs are DRM free. That is why people buy so much of them instead of downloading music files illegally from Emule. I guess I do not lock my car in the future. It will only be stolen because I locked it. If I do not lock it, the car theft rate will most certainly dramatically decline. At least if I would follow your "logic".
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Originally Posted by msundman
If you're against government regulations (or "dictatorship" as you call it) then I'm sure you're against copyright as well. After all, copyright is very invasive regulation, in which the government has decided on behalf of the people that the people are better off without their natural right to copy.
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The government has decided nothing. It is the author and publisher who decides what will happen with their books. If an author don't want to copyright his book, well, that's fine. Everybody can use his work as he wishes. Or if a phone company sells me a cell phone without any contract, that is fine as well. Great. But maybe it decides to sell it to me for a much lower price but with a two-year contract and a monthly fee and high rates. It's their decision. If I don't want it, I don't buy it.
Alan