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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Wow, you are nice. Perhaps I didn't inconvenience you but I benefited from your property without making any contribution to you/it at all. Do you feel that I should contribute something to you in exchange for the benefit that I derive?
Please let me know the next time you go on holiday. Do you live in a nice place to visit?
EDIT: Yes, I've only been to Toronto once. I wouldn't mind visting again since it was a work trip an the only site seeing I did was a trip to Niagara Falls.
BOb
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Bob, can I jump into this conversation (a little late, as I am new to eBooks).
What say you about these scenarios:
1) You go to a party and take a CD, and 20 people dance to the music. Yet none of them have purchased the CD
2) You read a (p)book, and its good, so you lend it to your wife, she reads it, and likes it, so lends it to a friend.
3) You buy a DVD and a friend comes over for the evening, and you watch the DVD together – but only you have paid for the DVD.
The point being is that all of these are normal activities in which copyright is broken, and people enjoy an item without the needs to purchase their own copy. So where, legally, is the line drawn.
For my own 2cents, I so far have a 20/80 split from purchased books to dark books. I would purchase more, but the rip off culture of too expensive e-books, hard to get hold of e-books makes it seem less worth while. Also, a lot of the dark books are electronic copies of books I already own in paper format – so should I have to buy the book twice.
Finally, the main reason I get dark ebooks is because with purchased books, the DRM in current ebooks means you cant do anything with them, and the formats generally are awful to use (PDFs with bad flows), bad fonts, headers and footers in the text, etc. If they put some effort into the books rather than treating them as a cash-cow, I may change the split by purchasing more legit books.