Thread: eBook piracy, how common is it?
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Old 04-02-2009, 12:13 PM   #504
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I am the last person in the world to argue in favour of "perpetual copyright", but I am in favour of an author being able to get fair payment for his work.
The whole point is in that word.
How much is "fair"?

1000$?
1.000.000?
All the money in the world?

I think there is no such thing as a "fair" amount.
There is just a "how much can I get with my brute force".

Right now pirates have enough power to get millions of free copies. when major publishers will get - lobbying - enough power to control Internet connections, it will be very difficult to get ebooks for free.
And when we'll have a policeman in every house, it'll be forbidden to lend a book o to read it aloud without paying a special license.

It's not "right", nor "wrong".
And it's not "fair".

Or better, "fair" and "right" are where the largest gun is.
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