a:63:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:14:"comment_author";s:6:"Jeremy";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:22:"jeremy@printisfree.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:0:"";s:15:"comment_content";s:1095:"It's disheartening to see that the enlightened souls here aren't willng to engage in debate rather than immediately descend to personal attacks.

My work is not infinitely reproduceable; time is a finite resource and the work I do is ongoing. I could, however, be replaced with a computer and the only reason I have not been is that the up front cost of developing the software is a barrier. One day that will no longer be the case and my skills, such as they are, will no longer be marketable.

Doing something does not entitle the doer to payment. I'd love to make a wage writing about one or both of my biggest hobbies, but no-one is willing to pay for it.

The argument that if no-one pays for books no-one will write is belied by the fact that millions of people write and aren't paid, and don't seek payment.

I'm sure I don't really have to explain why copying something is not the same as denying the owner the original, which is why unauthorised copying is not the same as theft.

"I wrote this, I must be paid" is a misplaced sense of entitlement at best, and at worst chronic egotism.";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:14:"82.132.211.110";s:10:"user_agent";s:156:"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-gb; Milestone Build/SHOLS_U2_02.36.0) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17";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:6:"Jeremy";s:10:"POST_email";s:22:"jeremy@printisfree.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:0:"";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1095:"It's disheartening to see that the enlightened souls here aren't willng to engage in debate rather than immediately descend to personal attacks.

My work is not infinitely reproduceable; time is a finite resource and the work I do is ongoing. I could, however, be replaced with a computer and the only reason I have not been is that the up front cost of developing the software is a barrier. One day that will no longer be the case and my skills, such as they are, will no longer be marketable.

Doing something does not entitle the doer to payment. I'd love to make a wage writing about one or both of my biggest hobbies, but no-one is willing to pay for it.

The argument that if no-one pays for books no-one will write is belied by the fact that millions of people write and aren't paid, and don't seek payment.

I'm sure I don't really have to explain why copying something is not the same as denying the owner the original, which is why unauthorised copying is not the same as theft.

"I wrote this, I must be paid" is a misplaced sense of entitlement at best, and at worst chronic egotism.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:7:"Publish";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:"287a520c84";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:"1283";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:3:"*/*";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:34:"utf-8, iso-8859-1, utf-16, *;q=0.7";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:4:"gzip";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:12:"en-GB, en-US";s:18:"HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL";s:23:"no-cache, max-age=43200";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:11:"HTTP_PRAGMA";s:8:"no-cache";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:156:"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-gb; Milestone Build/SHOLS_U2_02.36.0) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17";s:21:"HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH";s:14:"XMLHttpRequest";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:"82.132.211.110";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"38474";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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