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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I just read your post. Where should I send payment?  |
I suppose, technically, to be pedantic (because these discussions do get bogged down in terminology debates) the stated argument should be "people should pay for what the author releases as pay-for-reading material," because nobody is saying that anyone is obligated to pay for reading Cory Doctorow's ebooks. (And I think that "pay for what the author wants to sell" is an interesting idea, even a useful one, but has never been a mandatory part of being an avid reader.)
I do wonder if anyone promotes the idea that "if the author disapproves of ebooks, you shouldn't buy them, even if the publisher sells them." The author signed a contract allowing this--but if people really cared about supporting the author and creative rights, wouldn't they avoid uses of the content that the author doesn't want?
That's probably a fairly convoluted thought. Odd, how it's about morality and ethics, until there's a contract involved, at which point it's about what's legally permitted.