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Why would anyone buy a book rather than check one out from the library? If you buy a book, you get it right away, and you get to keep it as long as you want. But if you want a book from the library, you are probably going to wait. And wait. He keeps talking about copyrights being devalued, but copyright has been extended over and over again.
He says "If I stood on a corner telling people who asked where they could buy stolen goods and collected a small fee for it, I’d be on my way to jail. And yet even while search engines sail under mottos like “Don’t be evil,” they do the same thing." Search engines do not tell you where to find pirate sites. It simply searches for web sites based on your criteria. It's just an index.
If there's a slow death of the author, then why do I have no trouble finding authors who want to sell me books?
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