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Originally Posted by HarryT
It is only by making the people who currently feel that they have some "right" to read books without paying for them realise that they are taking money away from the authors (whose work they presumably enjoy) and are doing wrong by them that one has any chance of changing their behaviour. Saying it's "illegal" is meaningless.
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Are you Jack Valenti's brother by any chance?
testimony given at the
1982 trial of home recording of copyrighted works:
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
Anyway, see my earlier argument regarding a library card and format shifting, and the argument about phantom profits, and the argument about the difference between content, content providers, and content creators.
Wagging your finger like that doesn't help the argument, makes you look like a reactionary old fart, and a hypocrite to boot. Unless you are that one guy that has never touched a piece of pirated media in any format in his life.