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Originally Posted by ricdiogo
It is stealing. If you are at a physical bookshop and you pay one copy of the book but you hide the other one in your jacket aren't you stealing? If you left the book alone, someone else could buy it and that other person would be paying the author's rights. But since you have stolen it, that copy will not serve to pay the author. Same happens if you download a book: you have paid the book in your desk but you haven't paid the author for having that extra copy you downloaded (which by the way is an illegal copy since the author did not give any permission for having it uploaded in the first place).
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No, it is infringement. Namely, an infringement upon the exclusive right of a content creator to make copies, nothing more nothing less. And if you want further clarification, I have a lengthy document from a U.S. District Court Judge ruling that I had, indeed,
infringed 535 of someone else's copyrights that I can show you.
The only theft of intellectual property that has ever occurred has been the theft of the public domain by rent-seekers and their paid-for legislators, coupled with a repackaging by corporate attorneys of what is entirely a civil matter (infringement) into a criminal act (stealing.) Know the difference.
Back to the original point of the thread, anybody noticed that Harlequin, in a bid to take share from Ellora's Cave and Samhain, has slashed prices on ebooks? Publishers haven't competed on price since the '60s, so given the prevalence of smutty themes in the paid-for ebook market, it's kinda interesting that our neighbors to the north are taking this route, even when you think of what the Loonie's done to the dollar this past year.
Disclaimer, one of my sites sells smutty ebooks for $1, with quantity discounts; however it has not a single title featuring either vampires or the Regency Period, so I'm on the sidelines watching this one.
High prices do equal high margins... and high margins attract competitors... prices will go lower.