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Originally Posted by darryl
I'm sure most who have bought e-books in good faith from Microsoft would not care if they are infringing copyright in reading them, irrespective of whether they have their money refunded.
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I really think most people are pretty honest and that, if they accept the refund they'll accept the loss of the books.
Actually I think piracy proves, in an odd way, the honesty of most people. It's easy enough to get a pirate copy of a book today. A lot of people either know how or could easily find out how, and do it. And yet most people buy their books.
We have a washateria in the retirement home where I live and all the machines only take quarters. I keep stocked up on quarters and my neighbors often borrow them from me. I have them pay me back in quarters. Once, out of curiosity, I began tracking this to see if I was losing anything. I kept track for about 6 months, during which I lent out about 400 quarters. That's from memory and not precise but I had it in a note app in my phone so I had the exact number from each person. I also tracked the paybacks. It turns out in that 6 months I lost 9 quarters.
No-one knew I was tracking this and I'm pretty well known here for my forgetfulness so pretty much everyone here had to assumed there was no chance of getting caught for not paying me back. Yet all but one person did and she's more forgetful than I am so that was probably not intentional.
We hear on the news all the time about bad things happening and yet we drive right through a green light so often without worrying about the cars coming up to the red light stopping. We live in a world characterized by trust and trustworthiness and exceptions aren't really that common. That's why they make the news.
Barry