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Originally Posted by Format C:
The question is: does the author deserves it if nobody reads that book? Does she/he have to be paid just for the downloading of the illegal (in my country too) file?
Or it's more likely fair to pay an author for accessing his content, rather than just the publisher's container?
I downloaded a file, I still have it on my HD and nobody has ever read a single word from it.
What am I stealing? I can spend 4 years in jail for it... |
You know once upon a time I was into movies. I downloaded them what I could, altough I noticed I never actually watched them. Its a kind "gatherer drive", and I completly stopped once I realized that.
When you download things you are not going to read, first you are doing something wrong. Its roughly the same as e.g. woman -- to be sexiest
-- who buy clothes they never gonna wear.
Second how should anyone prove if you are going to read it or not. Its like not wanting to pay in the cinema for a horror movie, because you say well will always close my eyes and hold my hands on my ears eitherway...