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One thing that I do not do is give away or even share my ebooks with anyone else. I do not believe that is right. I would not want everyone to have my property with out paying for it. To me that is the same as breaking into a persons home and taking what they own.
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As I tend to be totally disassociated with reality this might be jumbled up.
Sharing is up to each individual. I share pbooks, backup music cds and so on. I even do bookcrossing so I can share with the world.
With ebooks sharing just becomes easier since you don't need to worry if you will get your book back. But that's the point you should still apply the same norms to sharing ebooks. Who do you trust. If you don't trust people to share a pbook with then the same applies to an ebook.
Sharing among friends isn't a bad thing like most RIAA/MPAA and similar want to make it. It helps to expand the limits of what is possible.
Initially the copyright was written to allow authors to get reimbursed for what the printers were doing. That is copies without the authors consent. Nowadays it just goes higher and higher and higher... The initial term of the protection was 14 years now it's 50-100 it means really that nobody will really be able to use much of the work for a long long time.
I agree there should be copyright, there should be protection but it should be changed.
Set copyright to 25 years, and for any publisher to make a very serious effort to promote the work in that time. After the 25 years if the author NOT the publisher wishes to he can extend the copyright for another 25 years.
Non-persons(corporations governments and so on) should net be able to hold copyright. There are contracts and other ways of protecting their work.