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Of course, the trick is finding enough people willing to sacrifice to make something happen these days. Nobody wants to protest (save for small groups like us), nobody wants to go without, to suffer, to experience trouble and worse. The majority seem to want the easy way of life with no problems and no troubles. It's one of the reasons I had so many problems with my tech site. We did a lot of good, but nobody wanted to step up and do anything.
So in that sense, we the readers and authors are somewhat to blame as well. We haven't stepped up to the line and made the big houses take notice and say, "Hey, what we're doing is wrong. If we don't change, we'll lose our shirts." If enough people stepped forward and said something, these problems would be over almost instantly.
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So the scores of uploaders who feed the darknet with content are not doing anything? Does that not count as a protest, as a way to circumvent the ugly statu quo? Are they, risking being ransomed or kidnapped on custody of their nation-states, doing not a bold and courageous action? The fact that one does not like their form of peaceful protest doesn't deny its status as such.
And why must we, book readers, resort to the hard ways if there are easier ones to get what we want? It's only human behavior to want to simplify and make things as easy as possible. That's why someone observed a circular stone and understood what could be a wheel.