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Originally Posted by Logseman
Nothing further from my intention to wish ill to anybody. I've never complained about the price tags that Apple, Amazon and the like put to their books. They should be free for charging whatever they please for them.
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When you steal from them you are doing far more than just wishing them ill.
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Originally Posted by Logseman
I've just pointed out that, facing the decision of downloading for 12-15 dollars and downloading for free, I feel it is my moral responsibility as a consumer to download for free as long and as much as I can, for we ought to enjoy as much of life as possible at the minimum cost. I find it no more than a dialectical process. Maybe with ebooks at 2 dollars, with the author making 90% of the money and in well-edited books, I'd feel inclined to buy. And not necessarily. The sacred power of consumers is choice, and I want to have the widest array possible.
About the last sentence: right now I'm reading Plato not Prozac, by Lou Marinoff, downloaded from the internet in a quite crappy edition. It's a book that can hardly be considered a latest blockbuster (of which I never download anything since I don't care about them), but I'd like to inquire when it will come to public domain. I give you a clue: its copyright has a good chance of outliving me.
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You may feel that it is ok to download as much as you can for free. That doesn't it make it moral in the opinion of society at large.
You also have a misunderstanding about what the power of consumer's choice means. It doesn't mean that if I feel like it, I steal it.