Thread: What are your views on illegal copying?
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Old 02-22-2010, 08:25 AM   #277
Pardoz
Which side are you on?
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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton View Post
According to the poll, more people would endorse copying a book which has not been made available locally than would endorse copying a book by a dead author.
Can't speak for anybody else who voted that way, but for me I don't have any particular problem paying the estate of a dead author. Moral questions of monetary compensation don't really apply (other forms of 'compensation' for the dead are between you and your religious beliefs) but self-interest comes into play: if I buy the book, the estate is more likely to release the rest of the author's backlist, therefore I buy the book, all other things being equal.
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