Equating labor to digitized information sucks ass and anyone worth a damn should know better
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"If I steal a physical book I have deprived someone of its use and that is fundamentally different from copying a file" Bitch the actual dead trees in that book cost like a total of $1 max to physically print in that form You can take as many of the physical objects as you want
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The price of a hardcover book was always a *ticket price*, it's an admission fee to get to see the text in the book before anyone else That's how the industry actually works, that's what the price is meant to cover
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It takes more work to prepare an ebook than a print book as well, as ebooks need to be formatted to allow for a wide variety of display and devices.
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Honestly shipping them book probably costs more than printing it.
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But you know the argument here! If I take a physical thing someone else can't have that thing. But me having a copy of the Mona Lisa doesn't mean the copy in the Louvre is at risk.
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The consumer-focused standpoint that the reason to put a price tag on something is that your consumption creates scarcity for other consumers is the whole problem here The issue is not the consumer, either way, it's the producer
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