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Originally Posted by HarryT
Mojoe, however, is in the UK, so if he borrows a book from the library, the author of that book receives a payment. I repeat my question: Moejoe states that downloading a book is no different to borrowing from the library, so how, given that he states this to be the case, does the author receive their PLR payment?
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They don't. And they don't if I find a book in the street, borrow it from a friend, memorize it, tattoo parts of it on my bum and then recite it to myself secretly under the covers before I go to bed at night by the cunning use of a flashlight and a mirror.
Why are you so concerned with the PLR payment (which we've argued about before and in which we saw that the vast majority of authors never see anything like a pound from over the course of the year)? Why aren't all you people decrying file-sharing and 'theft' not looking at the actual publishing companies that are fleecing, and have been fleecing authors for the last 100 years.
If you all care so much about authors where's your outrage over the 5% in royalties and the £2,000 advances on a novel a new author gets? Where's your outrage about authors who have to take second and third jobs to make ends meet because the publishing companies couldn't be arsed pushing said author or doing any advertising? Where's your condemnation of an industry that regularly 'pulps' half of its output rather than donate those books to people who might be able to use them?
If you want me to respect the copyright of publishers, then you're going to have to convince me they deserve that respect. As it is, I wouldn't spit on the lot of them if they were on fire (small publishers excluded of course).