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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
You're floating around at 50,000 feet. I have a few questions about your sentence above that may help ground the conversation.
1. Who are the "creators?"
2. Who is "we?" Everyone on earth? All literate people? Or just people in the most prosperous English speaking countries? If the latter, they already have near-universal access through inter-library loan. All it takes is patience.
3. What does enjoyment have to do with it? If enjoyment just means that someone finished the book, how is the government going to figure out which books really get read, as opposed to people just downloading books because they like what the author stands for politically, and want to give him or her money without actually reading the book?
What is so special about getting a text right away in the format that you personally prefer?
Your ethical standards are not the only ones possible.
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1. Well, when you get right down to it there is only one creator... No one else can actually create anything. But I suppose it is fine to attach one account to each book and let the creative team dispense any compensation as they see fit.
2. We is anyone who has access to the network, the connection makes us one. The digital promises instantaneous communication, placing artificial time constraints on access, underutilizing the technology for supposed monetary gain, that is immoral and thus we are free to access as quickly as we see fit.
3. Our ereaders already track our reading, it would be trivial to deduct money from our Amazon et al. accounts if we spend more than an hour or so reading a book.