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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
We need people to stop calling copyright infringement "stealing," for starters. It implies criminal behavior instead of civil violation, and that kind of imprecise insult is exactly why most filesharers ignore pleas to stop. If complainers don't even know what they're really doing, why should they listen to the complaints?
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Personally I think they ignore pleas to stop for no other reason than the file-sharers want the product either for free or at the very least for a price less than the asking price.
I have no doubt at all that if the "complainers" started calling copyright infringement "file-sharing", "civil disobedience", "a mighty heros way of standing up to the establishement" or anything else the "file-sharers" would still continue to file share anyway.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
We also need publishers to acknowledge that it's legal to give away and resell ebooks, just like it is for pbooks. When publishers start treating ebooks as having the same rights as ebooks, the customers are more likely to do so.
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The reverse is also true, when consumers start treading ebooks as the same as pbooks then publishers are more likely to.
In this regard consumers need to start admitting that digital media does have value. Consumers must admit that uploading unlimited "copies" of the "content" simply because it is quick and easy to do so is not a smart way to encourage publishers to start seeing ebooks the same as pbooks.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If flowers could be created by pushing a button that says "insta-copy," there'd be a lot less interest in buying them.
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And hence why there will become a lot less interest in
buying ebooks in the future. It is so easy to push a button and grab an "insta-copy" from the net. Couple that with the idea that it is the consumers "right" to acquire digital media for free and eventually no one has any interest in
buying an ebook at all.
Cheers,
PKFFW