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Originally Posted by issybird
It's such a simple issue for me that I don't understand the torturous logic to justify piracy. The rights holders have the right to charge whatever they want for content; a buyer has the right not to buy at said price. That's all. Complaints of being ripped off and others along that line make no sense to me. If you think you'd be ripped off, then don't participate in the transaction. Why do rights holders owe you something at the price you're willing to pay?
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I think the point here isn't how people justify it, it's why do they do it in the first place. I very much get the attraction of being able to get a book that is not available by any other means.
Copyright isn't property right, it's simply a government granted time limited monopoly on copying with rights and obligations on both sides. The whole point is to make such works available to the public. If a rights holder isn't making it available, then they aren't keeping up their side of the bargain. Of course, there is a some who think that copyright is all right with no obligation, much like there are pirates who don't see an obligation to actually pay for a work.