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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Without the protections provided by copyright laws, intelligent people will not produce much of the things you benefit from on a daily basis. You have more things available to you today, thanks to copyright laws. Therefore, copyright laws actually enrich your life.
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Hmmm, what about Linux and all that open-source mouvement with GPL and copyleft licenses? None of it is copyrighted in the way you describe. Intellectuals works on these project because of the satisfaction they derive from having their name associated with the software they helped build.
Also, an author doesn't receive a cent from second hand books and libraries. Does that mean that they should be banned?
I think that the author is not the one who suffers more from pirating. The publisher and distributor are the one loosing the most.
You must be familiar with the latest Nine Inch Nail album? They gave it away for free on their web site, and yet they turned a mighty profit with special edition cd/dvd for their biggest fans.
My point is that the industry is changing. Pirating is inevitable. As second hand book store and libraries were. As an author, I would therefor reconsider my business model. My first order of business would be to make it more easy for the second book buyer, and 'honorable' pirates, to send me voluntary contribution.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
E-book "pirates" refuse to accept the idea that an IP creator is hurt when he is not paid for his work. And in a world where someone is dependent on the income he makes from his IP, every copy not paid for is injurious to him. But the "pirate" in his selfishness doesn't care about someone he's never met, somewhere on the other side of the planet, so he does what he wants, in his rationalizations for justification, and his ultimate belief that he won't get caught.
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This generalization isn't fair. Just for fun, how much money do
you make from the sale of a book? How much does the publisher? the printer? and the distributor?
The majority of the people on this forum are avid readers. People who most likely spend hundreds in book each year. Now they have a new toys and they are more than willing to spend as much for the material (minus the printing fee). The issue now is the availability of the material. In most cases the only way to access it is through pirating. All they ask is an easy way to have access to the material. All I ask, is a way to send money directly to the author/publisher.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Everyone should understand that we all live together in a society, one becoming more global every day... and that in order to keep this society working, we can no longer afford to succumb to the temptation of living by the "natural law."
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Like off shoring jobs in order to maximize revenue, I totally agree.
