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Originally Posted by axel77
I think you are hitting the head on a nail here.
The important question is always to your code of conduct, what would happen, if everybody would do it? (this boils down to Kants Imperative)
What would happen if nobody would buy any books, but all download it for free?
Well the publishing system would break down, there would be far less books, and far less good quality books. Still there might be people who still do it for the heck of it, but you couldn't life by it, and it sure would make a lot fewer people do books.
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This would only apply to books yet to be published. If everyone stole and pirated books the trillions of already published books would not simply disappear overnight. There are already more books in existence than any one of us could ever read, but yeah, it'd put a damper on new books or force the industry to become more creative and daring in their future endeavors.
I agree with a lot of what you have to say though, especially the innate complexity of this ever more connected world.