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Originally Posted by HarryT
When you buy a book from a bookstore you pay for it at the time you get it. The bookstore doesn't care whether or not you ever read it. Do you think that it should be different merely because you download the file rather than go into a shop and buy it?
Saying that you think that you should only pay for it if you actually READ it seems a little strange to me!
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Why do you find it strange?
When I pay a printed book, I pay the paper, the ink, the cover designer, the photographer, the truck driver, the shop manager... Everybody who has worked to bring me that item.
The author just WROTE the book. His work is in the words written in it. If I don't use them, why should I pay for them?
To pay for what I actually READ, or, more generally, for what I actually USE, sounds more "fair" than "strange" to me. Whatever I'm paying.
Pay Per Use is nothing new...
