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Originally Posted by acidzebra
I agree with all of your expressed sentiments, as long as you don't contend that these authors went broke due to book piracy  |
No, I never said this had anything to do with piracy. I don't think piracy has any measurable effect on sales of books (or music, for that matter).
My point was that people who want to rail on about the broken system and how they don't think they should pay x for a book might want to keep in mind that by doing so, they may be denying income to a group of people who really don't have a lot to spare already.
But I'm not so much arguing with the overall effect as with the principle that just because one doesn't personally like capitalism, one is entitled to act as though a socialist system not only would be better, but
already exists.
And the truly ironic part is that the author I'm thinking of most in this regard is, in fact, a socialist.
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Originally Posted by tompe
Well, most countries have free adequate health care for everybody. I do not see how the US health care system is related to if people have some right to get paid for the thing they choose to do.
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If the books that are being downloaded were written by US authors, whether or not those authors get compensated for each book read may affect whether or not those authors can afford health care.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Nekokami, I am most definitely not a socalist, but I see these same problems in we (formerly) salaried I.P. workers (programmers, engineers, ect.) just as much, here in the US. It's not just a problem caused by "piracy". Our media, our government (both major parties), sweep in under the rug, and pretend it doesn't happen...
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Again, I am not saying that the money problems of authors are attributable to piracy, and I am well-aware that the problem of adequate medical coverage is widespread in the US-- even among people who are "insured."
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Originally Posted by slayda
Can we also get together with like-minded folks in our area to Tar & Feather writers that turn out really bad books (in our opinion, of course)? 
This will provide both positive and negative reinforcement for writers. |
If you want to raise money to invite an author to be tar and feathered, and you think they'll accept the invitation, I suppose....
