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Originally Posted by tompe
Not if you borrow a book from a friend. Also you can have lawa that guarantee use of things without somebody being payed. And they are not morally wrong just because you are not paying for something you use (for example "allemansrätten", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_o...the_wilderness). |
If you borrow someone else's book, you are using a copy of the work that has been paid for. You are not making a new copy. Further, such fair use is priced into the copy of the book (as is the reduction in sales due to people who read books at libraries and buy the books used). The point though is it is one copy that is used.
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That was not the argument. The argument was that lost income cannot be used in an argument to motivate why it is ethically wrong.
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And my point was that it holds no water. The argument that someone who downloads and uses a work is not lost income is specious. You have no way of knowing whether the person would have bought the work if they had been unable to download it illegally. Therefore it is fair game to regard it as lost income. Sure in the whole not every work downloaded and used would have been purchased, but some would have been and that is the point. Heck, because of the slippery sloap of reasoning, it is likely the downloader doesn't even know which books he would or would not have bought had it not been for the ability to download the works.
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Bill