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Originally Posted by The Terminator
You're buying the right to read the book, if the author doesn't want you to read her/his book because you didn't pay for it they should have the RIGHT to do that. In my mind that is one of the simplest things to understand, getting paid for you work.
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I don't believe that is a good way of looking at it. Should we not compensate creators for producing texts that we enjoy, while at the same time allowing universal access to all texts? Placing texts behind a paywall does not seem morally sound.
We allow for private texts, private communications, but uploading to one of the myriad text depositories already available on the network should by any ethical standard place the text into a postmodern public domain...