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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It has nothing to do with publishers, but everything to do with piracy which is the title of the thread.
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The "ever extending" copyright term? Y'know...I truly believe that that's just more justification and rationalization. Every argument I see about piracy always leads with the ubiquitous "but what about OOP books that I'm dying to read!," and goes on from there, usually devolving into the "well, the authors/publishers are greedy, because they don't
NEED copyright protections for X years" argument. The latter, of course, is just someone who feels
perfectly justified in disposing of someone
else's property, or deciding what's "right" about how long that person is entitled to their own, created property.
I don't think that term of copyright has Sweet FA to do with piracy. It's just a convenient bit of prestidigitation.
Hitch