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Originally Posted by HansTWN
400 years ago consumers had no way of copying a work (except by hand).
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But they could copy the work by hand and publishers still distribute illegal copies, like it happened with Amazon and "1984". But the publishers aren't called pirates for doing something that would have gotten them called pirates 400 years ago. So the meaning changed.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Those are cases where a majority has voted to take away rights from a minority (the content creators and sellers). Is that highly civilized?
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You can't say that they are taking away rights if downloading ebooks was never illegal. In other countries, where it was voted that downloading books is illegal the law makers have taken rights from the consumers.