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RE: Intellectual Property: A doomed philosophy based on laziness and greed

in #essay7 years ago (edited)

It's always interesting to think of real-world examples like book piracy. On its own, a very small issue. Usually people purchase the physical book, which has to be printed on paper and has value in itself. On e-readers, the price is drastically reduced to compensate for the lack of quality physical material.

In fact I know people who have pirated books in university, the textbook companies gouging the students because they know they can get away with selling $120 books every semester being the main reason. Cheaply-printed paperback copies of the real thing in all blue ink were ordered from India for $25 instead.

If that's hard-line libertarianism then so be it, screw those greedy authors and long live the free press!

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I fully support piracy of textbooks. Anything that pulls money away from the bloated, abusive private education system is a huge win. Glad to hear your and your friends were able to get cheaper copies of those books.

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