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:1284:"I too agree that people should, as they are able (not to sound communist -- but lets be fair, some people were dealt a shitty hand and could use some leeway) pay for what they use. Taking this to its logical conclusion, it seems you are against libraries at all. Do you not like the idea of your information being available for free at the library? I would not think less of you if you did, of course, but I do think less of the opinion that using a library is 100% indisputably moral, right, and just, whereas downloading a book for free is 100% immoral and wrong, when the net effect to you is the same.

You speak of people you know who are being driven out of the business by the lack of financial reward. This is understandable, writing takes a lot of time and it's not easy to devote ones life to something if one must also have a career and support a family, etc. On the flip side, I wonder about people who never had a chance to show their work to anyone or make a cent, because they did not have the stomach to wade through agents and publishers but now can just as easily throw it up on the internet and share it with strangers easily. It's my estimate that this will help grow the writing community far more than the lack of potential future financial gain will stunt it.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:4:"2611";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:1284:"I too agree that people should, as they are able (not to sound communist -- but lets be fair, some people were dealt a shitty hand and could use some leeway) pay for what they use. Taking this to its logical conclusion, it seems you are against libraries at all. Do you not like the idea of your information being available for free at the library? I would not think less of you if you did, of course, but I do think less of the opinion that using a library is 100% indisputably moral, right, and just, whereas downloading a book for free is 100% immoral and wrong, when the net effect to you is the same.

You speak of people you know who are being driven out of the business by the lack of financial reward. This is understandable, writing takes a lot of time and it's not easy to devote ones life to something if one must also have a career and support a family, etc. On the flip side, I wonder about people who never had a chance to show their work to anyone or make a cent, because they did not have the stomach to wade through agents and publishers but now can just as easily throw it up on the internet and share it with strangers easily. It's my estimate that this will help grow the writing community far more than the lack of potential future financial gain will stunt it.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:4:"2611";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"bbde405e3f";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:"1466";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:"61508";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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