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Originally Posted by HarryT
Please see earlier in the thread. UK libraries, under a system called the "Public Lending Right" pay authors 5.98p (roughly 10c) every time one of their books is checked out of the library, up to a maximum paymant of £6,600 per year (about $10,000) per author. ie the author does get compensated when a book is checked out of the library.
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That is in the UK - and a negligible amount even there. Here in the US, there is no such system, so it really doesn't apply.
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
To be fair, that's somewhat misleading as ebooks are still in their infancy. When digital music pirating started, the vast majority of people still listened to music on CDs or casette. Or to put it another way, *all* digital music was pirating.
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That's not technically true either. Now I know we're talking about sharing here, but to clear up a common misconception (thanks RIAA!) it is and has been perfectly legal to make a digital copy of your purchased (or legally free) CDs and cassettes. Depending on your location, it could even be legal to distribute (with no profit) a given number of copies of those CDs. Of course, these legal rights aren't exactly promoted by the music industry....