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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
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.
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Right now as per latest figures out there - Teleread recently - ebook sales are less than half a percent ie less than .005 of the book market here in the US.
So the time mentioned above will be a long time in coming - and before getting into cd's vs mp3's, there are too many differences for the comparison to be meaningful, eg cd's are as dis-intermediated as mp3's, as opposed to books which require nothing beyond a functional human body, vs ebooks, cd's were a new technology just 30 years old and as opposed as mp3's originally by studios, music is consumed differently, it's one dimensional so "real estate screen/page" is irrelevant....
Asking people to give away their implicit right as publishers do - first sale, sharing... - for the sake of a shining future, well it just does not fly
And my comparison in the (edited post) was specifically with another internet issue - sales tax on goods purchased and the Amazon law - to me that's the perfect example of another mass disobedience phenomenon whatever you think of its validity, it is there and it does not die...And the Amazon law just covers Amazon, check NewEgg eg how they refuse to follow it...