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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
But the issue of illegal file-sharing still exists, as shortly after release, their works will still find their way into the hands of folks who have not paid for their work.
I guess my central point is the defense of the artist, from both predatory publishers, and predatory “customers.”
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There always has been leakage - think libraries and used books
To my mind used books are a much more of a threat to authors income than ebooks right now.
But it's easy to rally against p2p instead of thinking how ebooks could be used to improve author's revenue...
The "pay me every time you read my book, not pay once and read the book whenever you want" that at least publishers push with ebooks, drm and such ain't going to fly and p2p is just a defense against that; and before we go into "congress, democracy and laws", well others pointed out mass disobedience instances across the years so would not want to rehash that
Edit later: and we do not need to go into big causes and such, think of taxes on Internet goods and the NYS Amazon law, to see an instance of such mass disobedience recent and pertinent to our discussion