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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Yes. Now, given modern darknets, that means that either she was aware this simply meant she was passing up a good deal of compensation for her work or she's being deliberately ignorant.
I am not calling it either, way, just saying...
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Truthfully I do not know what you are stating about J.K. Rawlings. Just saying some of your posts are a bit obtuse.
She is famous enough to know what it is actually going on, if you want to look it up. She has chosen to be a Luddite.
She writes her manuscripts on paper, using pencil or pen, and she has instructed her publisher there are to be no electronic editions of her books so that her readers "have the pleasure of handling a real book." (I am unsure of J.K. Rawlings' precise wording).
When her fans OCR her works into electronic files and place on the Internet her publisher hunts those files down and issues requests they be removed. You and I both know they are still out there.
Conclusions:
o she wants to be compensated for her works
o she wants her works to only exist in physical, paper form
o she is no Scrooge - she donated quite a bit of money to the English Government for a social cause (don't recall what that cause was)
Rumors:
The rumor is that she IS concerned about electronic piracy - but there is no direct quote for this, only the one about her readers handling a physical book
Why this discussion is pertinent to these forums is from a moral point of view I am unsure about giving authors rights as to whether or not one of their works can only be viewed written on the back of McDonald's hamburger wrappings (you can see what I am getting at).
In J.K. Rawlings' particular case you know her book was in electronic form at the printers, it is how modern printing presses function. She is stating she has the right to keep that electronic form away from you, the reader, forever.
Sure, maybe governments gave her that right but it seems a bit overdone to me. Go kill one thousand trees to make J.K. Rawlings happy?
Maybe governments should take her right away?