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I'm sure you're right about the reason it happened, but I'm afraid that I still don't think that it's a good thing. Being brought up with the attitude that "you can have whatever you want, whenever you want it" is not - IMHO - a good attitude to life. You may of course disagree; that's fine with me.
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I'm having problems getting into this whole generalisation game. I've never had a "you can have whatever you want, whenever you want it" state of mind or even such an upbringing. Most of my wants/needs are small at best. And even when I was younger I was thought to save up for the things I wanted. Yet nowadays I still get things via p2p. Though I don't keep them... but I don't grab things like: music and movies
I will get TV shows but then I pay the national TV and I pay cable TV so one could argue this is just a form of time shifting.
As for books I generally look in the local library for which I pay a yearly fee and if I can't find them there I'll simply make a decision. Is the book worth enough to purchase as a pbook and will go to my fav bookstore and order there, find a drm free ebook for purchase and in the end I might go to p2p though with the amount of freely available works and gratis available work it seems to be hard to run out of things quickly.
And to make clear(my mom used to work in the publishing business)...
The local libraries pay NOTHING back to the copyright owners AND they get the books by a 30-40% discount. Why so. Because books aren't accessible to all and this ensures that everyone can get access to them. Also our national library receives 10 copies of each book published locally and this is by law. Suffice it to say the publishers aren't to happy about it but this encourages culture and language awareness and so on.