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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
This is the heart of it for me. I know lots of people like to say "I always lent paperbacks." Well, technology changed. And so do the rules and reasons for them. Because something is easily possible, and people are mimicking a privilege they enjoyed before, doesn't change that fact that things changed. Lending can hurt author income. Just as secondhand selling hurt authors.
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No, it is not a privilege. The natural state is sharing things. The privilege is the copyright laws that gives a time limited monopoly on deciding about certain aspects of the sharing. So letting people restrict that natural state of sharing more is increasing the privilege. So that has to be motivated.