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Originally Posted by sabredog
I would much rather have the courts dealing with true criminals, not created ones. Those people who have committed offences against society rather than those who have supposedly denied the entertainment, music or publishing industry several sales.
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Dog,
I highly resent the implication that I, a card-carrying member of said society, and one of the people whose creative works are being hijacked and sales denied, am apparently unimportant to you and yours. I have rights, too, whether you personally like to trample on them or not.
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Originally Posted by sabredog
If they want piracy to stop then be proactive and constructive rather than sue the crap out of all and sundry.
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Since I already sell my ebooks at low prices, in multiple formats and with No DRM... and they are still torrented... I consider that I have been proactive.
It didn't work. So, let the punishments apply.
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Originally Posted by sabredog
Do you truly believe slapping a young person, student or single mum with a criminal conviction to be the way to stop this? If you do, then you certainly occupy the next door stall to the entertainment and publishing industry in cloud cuckoo land.
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Best I can think of. What do you have? Sunshine and pretty flowers? Maybe you should come down from your ivory ladder, there, and join the rest of us in the real world. In the meantime, welcome to my ignore list.