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I'm not disputing that the act is illegal. I'm disputing that the act is objectively wrong, and David's supposed understanding of how the people who share files (but whom he refuses to call file-sharers) do so, and to what end.

Even setting aside all of the moral and ethical objections (which are an article of faith and not one of fact), the law CANNOT protect the self-declared right of a writer to be paid just because he wants to be. In purely practical terms, copyright is dead. The only way for publishing to survive is to make material available conveniently and cheaply enough that their target audience will pay for it rather than obtain it for free.

None of this changes the fact that David believes the world owes him a living.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:13:"94.173.26.179";s:10:"user_agent";s:145:"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/5.0.375.127 Chrome/5.0.375.127 Safari/533.4";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:5:"Jerry";s:10:"POST_email";s:16:"jerry@fake.co.uk";s:8:"POST_url";s:0:"";s:12:"POST_comment";s:822:"I'd contend that you've missed my point rather than the other way around.

I'm not disputing that the act is illegal. I'm disputing that the act is objectively wrong, and David's supposed understanding of how the people who share files (but whom he refuses to call file-sharers) do so, and to what end.

Even setting aside all of the moral and ethical objections (which are an article of faith and not one of fact), the law CANNOT protect the self-declared right of a writer to be paid just because he wants to be. In purely practical terms, copyright is dead. The only way for publishing to survive is to make material available conveniently and cheaply enough that their target audience will pay for it rather than obtain it for free.

None of this changes the fact that David believes the world owes him a living.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:1:"0";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:"1014";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:90:"application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:30:"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:17:"gzip,deflate,sdch";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:14:"en-US,en;q=0.8";s:18:"HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL";s:9:"max-age=0";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"HTTP_ORIGIN";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:145:"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/5.0.375.127 Chrome/5.0.375.127 Safari/533.4";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:13:"94.173.26.179";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"52326";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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