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Really, my biggest gripe about content is that it is often withheld from distribution. Yah, I know: none of us are entitled to consume a particular book, film, performance, etc. The rights holder is entirely within his/her/corporate rights NOT to make the content available.
I reserve the right to complain when content IS made available the price is too high ... but that's not an excuse for "sharing" illegally.
But it's a darned shame when an author like Erle Stanley Gardner, who worte 70+ Perry Mason novels and created one of the true iconic characters in fiction -- as much a household name as Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, Sam Spade -- is currently represented by zero books in print. All because of a long simmering dispute among the rights holders. It is closing in on a generation (abt 20 years now) since his work has been issued in some quantity by a mass market publisher. It's no wonder that fans keep a smattering of his work in underground circulation in these cases.
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