Thread: EU vice-president: Copyright legislation is “pushing people to steal”
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Old 06-12-2015, 06:53 AM   #93
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Reading has always been a "middle class" activity. People who are working 16h a day to earn $2 on which to feed their family probably have neither the leisure time nor the money to be able to buy books, and neither are they likely to own an ebook reader or a smartphone on which to read the books that you suggest they are pirating.
Very true. Therefore, the suggestion that the system of regional rights is in fact a charitable endeavour to enable Publishers to make books affordable to the impoverished masses of the third world is exposed for the nonsense that it is.
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