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Originally Posted by HarryT
Tell me, Sassinak - what do you do for a living? Do you give away your work for free, or do you actually expect the people who consume whatever it is that you produce to PAY you for it?
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Alas I do give away a good bit of my work. Some of my work has gone into non-profit projects for which I recieved no payment. While admitidly not all of my work has gone to non-profits, with no money recieved by me, some of it has.
If I go to the grocery store and find that beef is priced too high, I simply don't buy it that day. I don't "steal" it, but I can choose through my actions to not pay a price that I do not want to.
A reasonable price is whatever a person is willing to pay. That is the way the market works. In my case I don't want to pay what the current rates are for .mp3's. I could simply choose to record the music off the public airwaves, but instead I support my local library.
I do pay for my ebooks, and willingly do so. I do not have a problem with them and do not "pirate" them. I do disagree with the pricing on some of them, and those are the ones I simply check out the hardback or paperback from my library or go to my local used bookstore.
In reality the publishers are now getting more money from me, as I now buy ebooks regularly, when previously I purchased a good number of my books through the local used bookstore, which does not give money to the author or the publisher. I think that ebooks are a great way for publishers to actually increase their "real" sales in the sense that people like me who would have bought books at used bookstores in the past are now buying ebooks.
For the music business, they are getting no more money from me than they have in the past. As I have never regularly purchased music they are not losing business from me, they never had it in the first place. I was willing to pay when I could get it through allofmp3.com, though I am not sure that the artists actually got money from those, Russian copyright is very fuzzy. I would be willing to pay again if I felt that the prices were what I wanted to pay. Otherwise I will go to my library, which I do pay for through my taxes and my late fee's and support them.
Amy