a:62:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:14:"comment_author";s:12:"ShaolinTiger";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:25:"shaolinbadboy@hotmail.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:27:"http://www.shaolintiger.com";s:15:"comment_content";s:1270:"I guess none of you have ever lived in a country where it's virtually impossible and economically ridiculous to purchase books legally?

If someone has no way of getting hold of a physical book (no bookstores, or bookstores that don't stock decent books),  paying for an electronic copy (no credit card, no PayPal account or whatever methods you as an author accept for electronic copies of your books), or doesn't have the economic purchasing power to buy the book even if it is for sale; but they have a desire to read them - what exactly are they supposed to do?

Why don't you rant about the book pirates photocopying books in the back streets of India because those chaps can't even afford the computers to view the 'pirate' books.

Personally I think everything is entitled to read and with the way the global education system is going and the MTV generations with attention spans in the seconds - I'm personally glad people ARE reading at all. Even if they have to do so by infringing copyright and the intellectual property of an individual.

All my published work is under creative commons, all my projects are open source and I believe in sharing.

I don't condone piracy, but I do understand why it happens. And yes, I live in a 'developing' nation.";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:12:"60.49.183.34";s:10:"user_agent";s:90:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13";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:12:"ShaolinTiger";s:10:"POST_email";s:25:"shaolinbadboy@hotmail.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:27:"http://www.shaolintiger.com";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1270:"I guess none of you have ever lived in a country where it's virtually impossible and economically ridiculous to purchase books legally?

If someone has no way of getting hold of a physical book (no bookstores, or bookstores that don't stock decent books),  paying for an electronic copy (no credit card, no PayPal account or whatever methods you as an author accept for electronic copies of your books), or doesn't have the economic purchasing power to buy the book even if it is for sale; but they have a desire to read them - what exactly are they supposed to do?

Why don't you rant about the book pirates photocopying books in the back streets of India because those chaps can't even afford the computers to view the 'pirate' books.

Personally I think everything is entitled to read and with the way the global education system is going and the MTV generations with attention spans in the seconds - I'm personally glad people ARE reading at all. Even if they have to do so by infringing copyright and the intellectual property of an individual.

All my published work is under creative commons, all my projects are open source and I believe in sharing.

I don't condone piracy, but I do understand why it happens. And yes, I live in a 'developing' nation.";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:"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:"1551";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:12:"gzip,deflate";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:14:"en-us,en;q=0.5";s:18:"HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL";s:14:"max-age=259200";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"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:90:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13";s:8:"HTTP_VIA";s:53:"1.1 halimah.omnilogic.com.my:3128 (squid/2.7.STABLE3)";s:20:"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR";s:14:"192.168.13.144";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:12:"60.49.183.34";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"50676";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/1.0";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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