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Originally Posted by Giggleton
What about the store owner's crime of not compensating the author for the sale of the authors work?
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First, many of the most important books, and almost all serious investigative non-fiction, are not the work of an isolated author, but of a group of people whose work, and compensation, is coordinated by a publisher. So you should be substituting the word "publisher" in the above sentence for "author." But you can't, because then your scheme to have a transnational entity pay "authors," based on something like the number of downloads, would be revealed as crony capitalism.*
As for why the used store owner, as opposed to the pirate, is indeed compensating the creator team, whether of a car or a book: I buy the used book, increasing the price of remaining used books of that title and makes the new one more attractive. This allows the publisher to charge more, gradually increasing compensation for the whole village which created the book.
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* This also is my answer to the people who think Giggleton is the next Chairman Mao. A scheme that is going to send more money to Bill O'Reilly, and the people behind him, may be many bad things, but the Cultural Revolution it is not. Maybe I myself once posted in this direction, and, if so, I now see myself to be mistaken.