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Originally Posted by HarryT
the argument that "I think a book is too expensive so I'm just going to take it anyway" is immoral in the extreme
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But who has espoused this view? Not I. When I said "if you are not going to support the content owners because you think their price is too high or they are strangling the content creators or whatever" I was merely giving examples (three of them, to be precise, and you focus on the 'taking stuff for free' one).
Tell me how to compensate the author in a reasonable way while at the same time not keeping a broken system chugging along, and I will be right there. I think a lot of people will. And, yes, there will be people who simply take without ever wanting or intending to pay. There is no way to stop them, and in the world of the digital, there never will be. But people like you and Steven seem to think that left unchecked and without your finger-wagging, soon everyone will do it. Which simply isn't true.