Thread: What are your views on illegal copying?
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Old 02-19-2010, 04:38 PM   #105
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There is a difficult middle category, of books which you can't buy electronically, but don't own. Perhaps the right thing there would be to take the electronic copy and buy a paper one as a license, thereby turning it into the first category.
And if it's no longer available for sale new, then what? Buying a used copy reimburses the creator precisely the same amount as downloading one, after all. There are all kinds of tricky lines here, especially since we're in a transitional stage.
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