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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
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
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Sure, for now, but that may change dramatically if and when eBook sales begin to eclipse hardcopies.
I agree with civil disobedience in times of war and the other examples given, but I feel it is a long, long stretch to compare file-sharing with civil rights. I’m sorry, but it strikes me as absurd and sort of insulting - as if a person's human rights are being trampled upon because they do not have free access to commercial goods.