Like I said before, there are a lot of selfish people on this thread. Guess what? YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ANYTHING. Get it? You took something from someone without permission and are now manufacturing reasons why it's ok. IT IS NOT OK.
Great quote from the comment section of the
Vauxhall Vixen blog (emphasis mine):
Quote:
Lots of people can't afford a car, yet if they steal one, no matter how badly they need it... they go to jail.
Lots of people are homeless, yet if they break in somewhere to get out of the cold, they go to jail.
Lots of people go hungry, along with their kids, but if they steal food, and get caught....well.
Sorry. Food and shelter are far more important than books. But they can't legitimize stealing those enough to escape the consequences, although I could understand THAT.
The anonymous arguing otherwise... the points you are trying to argue are issues that are all too often out of the author's control, price, availability in other countries, format, etc.
Yet you, like many others, feel the author should bear that burden. And we end up having to, and those who don't sell through, don't sell well enough-those authors are the ones who don't get contracts renewed.
It happens-I know of four fairly popular midlist authors that were wicked popular with pirates-and no, I'm not listing them because that is their business concern.
I've even seen pirates chatting about a couple of these authors, wondering when the next book is coming out. There won't be 'next books' because they didn't get new contracts.
Why? Nobody exactly knows, but a likely factor is flat sales.
Had some of those pirates purchased? Sales wouldn't have been so flat.
So there's a burden pirates get to carry. Forget the excuses and the rationalizations. Theft is theft and wrong is wrong.
Eventually publishing will catch up to the digital age-it moves slow, but it's a massive industry and nothing big can move fast. It's almost even a law of nature.
Once publishing catches up and they figure out a way to offer ebooks across the globe without causing problems with the foreign publishing arms they have in foreign countries, access to works will greatly improve.
And even once that happens, once DRM disappears and every is an ideal environment...theft will still happen because there are always people who want to take something for nothing, always those who'd rather steal, and always those who'd rather rationalize things away rather than just openly admit it's wrong, and just stop doing it.
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