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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Even ignoring all that, the simplest rule isn't always the best to go by. Leaving products unprotected usually leads to theft... which is exactly what is happening to e-books. That is a simple fact.
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It rifles me when copying of the book is called theft. It is illegal, but it is not a THEFT. Loosing potential sale is NOT a theft. If I read the book in B&N drinking coffee, if I took it from my friend or library you will not call it a theft. If I legally bought it used, you are getting Nadda, but you will not dare to call it theft. But the result is the same lost sales.
Will you call me a thief if I verbatim narrate the story from the book to my children? The book I read in the library?
What if I narrate the dialog from Seinfield? Somebody will say I violate copyright, but is it stealing?
I am just thinking of good Biblical times, when you had to take somebody statue and deprive them of it for it to be a sin and a crime. And if you made a copy of ancient Greek statue in your neighbors yard you were just a hack not a criminal.
Money hungry lobbyists are a scary thing indeed.