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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
While reading this thread I have to say I've seen some very selfish comments. Writing books is a job. The people who write the books deserve to be paid - the same way you deserve to be paid for your day's work.
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Surely you are not suggesting that anyone who manages to put together 150k words or so deserves to be paid. I get paid because someone is able to extract more value from my work than they pay me. Turning out 300 pages of tosh may be an honourable activity - but it may be rubbish and/or it may not be possible to monetize it's value. In such circumstances the producer should not be paid.
If I contravene copyright in order to read a book because I don't want to pay for it I may go on to pay for that author's other work or I may not. Either way, I was never going to pay for the thing that I downloaded.