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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
I'm not going to bother arguing with you Harry, that on past experience. There are plenty of product examples where the up front costs are much higher than those of ebooks (especially fiction) and cost of purchase is very low. You seem, in your last sentence, to believe that ebook pricing is of a "cost plus" nature, which if it is so clearly indicates that the market for ebooks is heavily protected as I have said.
Just exercise your mind by opening your viewpoint beyond abusing your "scum", having copyright enforcement punishing even "innocents" who unwittingly circumvent rights (as you claimed in a post some time back), and that ebooks are somehow different to everything else in the world. I'll leave you to it.
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I think part of the problem is that the laws on copyright we have now are written for paper media whereas now days more books are ebooks. It's like how the government had rules for what was legal and illegal wire usage and then the computer came along and made most of the laws at the time obsolete so that the Secret Service (which handled counterfeiting and wire fraud) had to play catch up. Some parts of it are still playing catch up I think. I mean what do you see when you open an ebook? Usually there is a disclaimer that you don't have the right to copy or transmit the book via electronic means, but aren't you doing exactly that when you download a book to your ereader and open it? We say that it is ok to do as long as we own a copy but each time you download it you are making a new copy since the old one is deleted (after you read it).