a:60:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:14:"comment_author";s:3:"Bob";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:7:"b@b.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:0:"";s:15:"comment_content";s:1487:"There's not a practical difference between hosting links and content. I'm aware how Mobilism and other sites work.

Looking at my journals, I enjoy about ~20 or so items of printed material a month without paying for it.

I get it from the public library. Thanks for calling me names. The net effect on the authors of the books I enjoy is no different than if I downloaded them (except that the library books are denied another customer in the time I have them) -- but for some reason, one is bad, and one isn't. Strictly speaking, the library is way more convenient for me so I don't even have to make an ethical decision since one is just better.

As I said, calling the hosters of the site fences is not entirely accurate. Most of those sites do not aim to profit, but offset the cost of the servers. There are other, more efficient ways of obtaining illicit books on the dark damp Internet where no one exchanges a dime, because there is no additional infrastructure (a website, etc) required.

I'm not trying to offer sanctimonious advice or shift the moral blame onto you rather than others. I do find it so peculiar that as an artist you are so quick to rage on people who are interested in your work but do not have the inclination (whether through malice or circumstance) to pay for it. I'm simply pointing out that you are not being replaced -- your publisher is -- and as long as you keep writing good stuff, I doubt you'll have any trouble keeping food on your plate.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:4:"2580";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:14:"76.105.146.168";s:10:"user_agent";s:85:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12";s:8:"referrer";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:3:"Bob";s:10:"POST_email";s:7:"b@b.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:0:"";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1487:"There's not a practical difference between hosting links and content. I'm aware how Mobilism and other sites work.

Looking at my journals, I enjoy about ~20 or so items of printed material a month without paying for it.

I get it from the public library. Thanks for calling me names. The net effect on the authors of the books I enjoy is no different than if I downloaded them (except that the library books are denied another customer in the time I have them) -- but for some reason, one is bad, and one isn't. Strictly speaking, the library is way more convenient for me so I don't even have to make an ethical decision since one is just better.

As I said, calling the hosters of the site fences is not entirely accurate. Most of those sites do not aim to profit, but offset the cost of the servers. There are other, more efficient ways of obtaining illicit books on the dark damp Internet where no one exchanges a dime, because there is no additional infrastructure (a website, etc) required.

I'm not trying to offer sanctimonious advice or shift the moral blame onto you rather than others. I do find it so peculiar that as an artist you are so quick to rage on people who are interested in your work but do not have the inclination (whether through malice or circumstance) to pay for it. I'm simply pointing out that you are not being replaced -- your publisher is -- and as long as you keep writing good stuff, I doubt you'll have any trouble keeping food on your plate.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:4:"2580";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"9573640174";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1701";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:63:"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:30:"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:13:"gzip, deflate";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:14:"en-us,en;q=0.5";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:15:"HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE";s:3:"115";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:85:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:14:"76.105.146.168";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"57648";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.1";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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