[SteveEisenberg]

I just want to say something else about the relative poverty of authors and downloaders. I really do find this to be an issue. Many people live in countries and circumstances where it just isn't practical to purchase a lot of literature. They may be well off by that country's standards in having an eReader, but it would be impossible to spend a lot of money filling it. In some other places, there are freedom-to-read issues even for the wealthy. Those folks are, I think, justified in disrespecting copyright in order to gain a broad perspective on what is going on around the world. But if the only reason someone downloads without paying is that they like eReading better than a paper library book, well, I don't have to like that.