The thing people are missing here is it's not one case of someone uploading a song onto YouTube or whatever, groups like the AG push back when large organizations seek to legally expand fair use all at once, en masse, and create a new legal precedent
So it's the price discrimination argument, right, pay what you can? Okay, you personally know what you can and can't afford, and know for a fact that you will never be able to pay for the book so the author didn't lose a sale Fine A lot of authors might even be ok with that
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That's not the same as IA deciding to just make everything free for unlimited lending They don't do any means testing on the people who log in at their site, they don't know who's downloading what
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The waitlist is supposed to be the filter between people who CAN'T pay and people who just DON'T WANT to pay Authors lose nothing from accommodating the former, if they accommodate the latter they have no income at all
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No, it's the "I used to climb through landfill for toys when I was 8" It's the "my mother once apologised in tears because she couldn't afford a GI Joe to play with my friends, she could only afford a C.O.R.P.S figure, and she knew she'd have to make the.other kids let me play"
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Okay, and? Are writers never poor? Are they the 1% here sitting on piles of unearned cash? Did you miss the threads about trying to support a family on an income that pays less than minimum wage per hour of work? Or working the equivalent of a few job for years to make $2000?
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