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Originally Posted by TGS
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.
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Surely I am. If you want to read that 150K words, that is. Otherwise - if you find it so easy and worthless - go do it yourself and read your own work. Stop acting like you got nothing out of it. That's just absurd. You got your entertainment.
I don't prescribe to the "every download equals a lost sale" theory, but if you read it you got something out of it.