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Originally Posted by Trenien
I'm not saying that nobody should pay for books. What I'm saying is that handing over a copy of a digital file you have is essentially the same as giving a pbook - and yes, I include P2P as a way of passing around the copy.
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Utterly false.
The critical difference is that there is
one copy of a pbook, and if you pass it to someone else,
you no longer have it.
If the book is in electronic form, it doesn't matter if you make it available as P2P through BitTorrent or the like, post it as an attachment in email to all of your friends, or stick it on a website for download by http or FTP.
You still have a copy, and so do more than one other people.
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Dennis