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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
In this case, we as a people are faced with losing literature... not completely, of course, but we are faced with the shutting-out of independent authors, the higher costs of mainstream published books, continued format and platform disconnections, and a continuing narrowing of choices. A media run by a couple of publishers, Amazon and Disney.
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Just like home tapping is killing the music industry, right?
Piracy
is a problem, but the losses are
nowhere near those claimed by copyright holders, and actually very hard to estimate. And
draconian laws are surely not the way to solve the problem.