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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Everybody pays income taxes. Authors get tax deductions. This is just another reason why they should give something back.
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Uh, tax deductions for what? Certainly not for selling copyrighted content; that's good ol' taxable income. They get the same tax deductions as are available to anyone else.
Same thing with protection of property and personal safety. I don't have to pay the police department or fire department extra if they directly intercede on my behalf.
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
You are talking about outsourcing distribution.
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In post #69, you typed:
"Coca-Cola and Pepsi can't say "you can only buy directly from us at triple the price that our distributors are offering"."
It is a fact that manufacturers and publishers
can charge the general public twice or three times more or less than they charge for the wholesale price. They also can directly sell their products to the public for more or less than retailers selling the same product (though they will face the ire of their retailers if they charge less).
If you don't like it, the answer is not to threaten prosecutions for laws that don't exist, or to invent new obligations for copyright holders. The answer is to pressure the publishers via civil means, i.e. what the ALA
et al are already doing.