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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
So because the publisher steals from the writer, it’s ok for his or her fans to do it at as well?
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There's an opening here for a story about motes and beams.
Railing against the loss of a few bucks, while blithely accepting the loss of thousands of dollars, seems less like "advocating justice" and more like "screw the customer and their so-called legal rights; they deserve whatever the megacorps give them."
("Legal rights": Fair use allows a certain amount of copying, and even sharing, which DRM prevents. First-sale rights allow someone to resell what they own. Maybe if people could easily resell ebooks, the way they can pbooks, they wouldn't bother sharing the files, because they'd want to get their few bucks from the next reader.)