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Originally Posted by Richard Herley
To the pirates and apologists-for-the-indefensible posting here: if you persist in not paying the author, he will be unable to write. It is as simple as that. If you want nothing new, of any quality, to read in 20 years' time, by all means keep ripping off the authors and the publishers. Just don't complain when all you have left to read are books written 20, 50, or 100 years before -- by authors who, being conveniently dead, no longer need to feed themselves.
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Eee! I thought you’d be on the other side, Richard! Well, in so far as you aren’t.
This thread’s OP wasn’t completely clear, but he seemed to be saying that he “pirated” games without demos to try them out, then bought any game he planned to play more than once, and would like to do the same thing with books, but had the complication that so many books are only available as p-books, which made it more of a hassle. You know, kind of like your business model
. I think there was one(?) person who jumped in and said “muahaha, I teh pirate yer stuffz,” but that was it for the “apologists-for-the-indefensible.”
The rest of us on the “pro-freedom” side have pretty much all been arguing that we very much want to compensate authors, just not in a way which forces us to treat digital media like physical media and give up the additional uses digital media enable. I for one would be happy as a clam if we kept copyright as-is but all authors “sold” their books the way you do.