Thread: The $15 Boycott: Will you be participating?
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Old 02-05-2010, 05:55 PM   #198
Pardoz
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Originally Posted by cmdahler View Post
If I write a book and you want to read it, you can pay me what I want for it or you can do without.
Or I can borrow it from a friend. Or buy a used copy. Or even stand in the store and read it. And as much as that might piss you off, and as entitled as you may feel, you can live with it or...well, you can live with it. I guess you could join the Author's Guild's Sisyphean campaign against used book sales, but don't expect anything but laughter from the audience when the rock rolls over you again on its way downhill.

This has nothing in particular to do with file-sharing as such. Just pointing out that 'you can pay me what I want for it or you can do without' isn't a realistic position to start from. Well, unless you want to start pushing for legislation to criminalize used-book dealers.
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