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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Oh, please. You're just reflexively promoting and rationalizing piracy and copyright infringement, as per usual.
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I am really getting a little tired of seeing people on this forum calling other people pirates; without identifying who the real pirates are. The real pirates are the publishers who have taken rights to themselves that never existed in copyright law. They feel they have far more rights now withj EBooks than they ever did with print media. If you want to get a real laugh out of an EBook publisher ask about fair use. When I have the same rights with EBooks as I do with real books, I will buy protected ones.
These rights include:
1) Actually get and be able to use what I pay for. This is frequently NOT the case.
2) Be able to modify what I pay for
3) Be able to lend my EBook to a friend
4) Be able to sell my EBook as used
Currently I have no Copyright books. The only ones I would consider are those without DRM.
I will pledge my time to defeating whatever politicians got us in this mess with poorly written intellectual property laws. The purchaser has rights too.
Robert