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Nope. The end result is not the same.
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The result
is the same and no amount of moralizing will change that.
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No, the argument still stands. So you're saying the product you've downloaded doesn't exist?
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Then tell me where I can legally purchase a copy of the latest Harry Potter book in eBook form. If you can't, then your argument doesn't stand - the product doesn't exist.
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Errrmmm... Yes it does. If something costs more, the consumer pays more. Guaranteed.
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You seem to have missed Economics 101.
Books, unlike gas, alcohol and the such, are not considered necessities. As such, they are very sensitive to price increases.
Let's say that today, a book costs $5 - $2 of that is profit.
Let's say that the cost of a book goes up to $7. Now the author has a choice: make the book cost $7 - and suffer a large loss of sales - or make the book cost, say $6 and see a smaller loss of sales - but his profit goes down to $1.
In this way, not all the costs are passed on to the consumer. This happens frequently in many, many businesses.
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Oh, absolutely! eBooks are considerably cheaper to produce than a paper book. However pretending that the costs to produce the work don't exists isn't a valid argument.
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I claimed no such thing. Please actually read my messages.
I claimed that the costs associated with an eBook did not justify pricing them to even close to what a pBook cost.
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I'm in the music business
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Ahhh, now I understand where you are coming from.
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and I can tell you first hand that illegal downloading does indeed impact the bottom line.
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I suggest that you stop believing your own propaganda.