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Originally Posted by varlog
not my forum really...
but...
i think anyone depending on pay from individuals can well understand you feelings, but I think you mix two things into one. One is casual theft, other is stealing. As a professional you have a person to person contract with your client. If your contract says "I'll do the job, pay me if you will" you are attracting thiefs. You tell takers "Take me". The takers will come and steal from you!
By casual theft there is no contract, there is just opportunity: it is lying there, you can take it or leave it. The casuals come. The question is: would they pay for (or even look at ) it if it was not casually available? I think no.
As I see it the book readers have no choice: once they have they realized they love it, they have to acknowledge it (to 99%, there are always some f exceptions) with money. I'm even paying Brandon Sanderson because I've casually read Robert Jordan... well, Harriet is still there... The casuals become readers or vanish into no consequence.
So - no DRM! because it is only nuisance. Can you imagine what I have to do to bay "Skin Game" on my Linux system?. Casual theft would be much easier really! But then it would be stealing! Which book readers don't do if it is possible.
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Is casual theft not stealing? And is putting an unprotected product out, whether it is electronic or a physical item saying take me?
If 99% of people would have no choice but to pay for what they could get dishonestly, we would have no locks, no electronic surveillance, no bar coded items or those plastic things they put on cloths to prevent you from just walking out the door with them. No car alarms or burglar alarms, or insurance to pay. It should be that way, but it seems to me that it isn't that way.
I agree that the majority of people are honest, but if 99% were we would not need so many police. And even the possibly 60% who are as honest as they know how to be, do the oddest things. Basically upright citizens changing the eggs in an egg carton so they can get extra large for the price of small in the Safeway. What is up with that, they save a few cents but are actually penalizing the person who buys the small eggs that have been switched, plus costing the store and egg producer goodwill.
And there are a lot of book readers in maximum security institutions, and libraries and B&M bookstores have barcode security systems on their books and have had for a long time? Why is that I wonder?
Literacy has no correlation to dishonesty AFAIK.
Helen