[QUOTE=Steve Jordan;982715]Ah... so the fact that some rights-holders are "enjoying high profits" (certainly not
me) makes stealing okay.
No, it just shows that those who produce desirable product still make record profits.
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And doesn't alter my point that, even if products are desirable and priced right, people do still steal them.
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Well, some people will never buy. But most who download are just not interested enough to purchase. At the same time, some of latter do get converted into future purchasers by a casual download discovery.
As to "stealing" ebooks, one can argue that it goes both ways. A purchaser of a phone from Best Buy can return the phone, if it fails to meet their reasonable expectations. But the purchaser of an ebook does not have such option, even if they give up reading in disgust a third into the book. Did the author/publisher just "steal" the purchase money? Should we have a new law for that?
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... As I pointed out before, they don't have a strategy yet. Now is the time to help them build one that is fair, equitable, and doesn't freak out all the Big Brother paranoids any more than necessary.
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Sure there is a strategy in place. It's in Title 17 of the U.S.C..
It's deemed fair and equitable by most of us, except for a few "piracy" paranoids.