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Originally Posted by amgoforth
You are right, however a simple free proxy server will solve those problems. It is none of any ones business where in the world we are.
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You are 100 percent right. It is no ones business where I am in the world and I should not loose my book buying privileges because I happen to be traveling somewhere besides the USA. I have been a life long customer of Barnes and Noble but they will never get another penny from me and are welcome to shove the Nook up one of their body openings whose normal use is evidently thinking. I am almost certain of it.
I have questioned several times what the difference is between my old way of acquiring books when I lived in the USA, which was thrift shops and library sales, and downloading them off the internet. As anyone knows that is almost for nothing. I usually pay 25 cents to 50 cents per book at thrift shops and sales. The subject is always ignored. Is it because there are those of you who only care about your own preconceived notions of piracy or any other notions you might have? Or perhaps you do your thinking with the same bodily opening that Barnes And Noble does.
One of my biggest fears is that their will never be another Will Durant or Arnold Toynbee because of how easy it is to have your work up on a P2P site for free within hours after it is made available for purchase. However when I see A genius who is offering a PDF of their work for 700 dollars each crippled with DRM, I have no sympathy for them and they are welcome to deposit their work in that same bodily orifice in which I stated the Nook should be placed by B&N. Don't get me wrong it is theirs they can charge 7 million dollars for it if they wish. Stupid is as stupid does. It is obvious that we are now at the point in ereading where an ecopy is not worth as much as a paper copy if you don't know that then you are either simple minded or dishonest.
Now there are many of you who I consider to be my friends and respect tremendously, please give me a thinking straight answer. I am very concerned over this and tired of being ignored. Answer this old man ex pro athlete who has been hit on the head so many times that maybe he doesn't think straight anymore and getting worse with age.
I am of the opinion that most of the download sites are full of bibliophiles like me who will never read all those books. At the same time if you are, for example, a Science Fiction author and your books are not on those sites you better have a day job. Is Corry Doctorow and others like him right, or are those who fight to protect their work from Piracy right? If I ever finish one of my two books, that were supposed to be finished months ago and saw they up for free download I would be very angry. At the same time I might later, on reflection be angry that they weren't there. What is the answer? Beats me, but I don't delude myself with tired platitudes and anal cognizance
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