Quote:
Originally Posted by kane
I disagree. If I buy a book and then lend it or give it to a friend I am not distributing it. I no longer have the book and they do. If they give it it back to me when they are done than they no longer have it and I do. Even with the Kindles and Nooks they are now allowing people to share books for a limited time. They also allow you to have multiple kindles/nooks on the same account so that more than one person can read the books you buy.
Still, this is likely all stuff that takes place within your group of friends/family and it involves a single copy of the book. It isn't the same as you making a copy of the book and then giving that copy out to 100 different people while also keeping a copy for yourself.
|
As I said above it does not matter if you only lend it to your friend or family members, it is still taking money from the publishers. How many familys and friends do this around the world ? A lot of people do it, and why do you think the game industry is trying to stop it ? because they are loosing revenue. They are pirates who are sharing just like the internet file sharers do. If I copy one of your files I am not actually physically stealing it either because you still have your copy.
The one very big difference between 90% of file sharing on the net and sharing a book or game between friends, is you are not making money from it like most of the file sharing, but you are still taking that sale away from the publisher by sharing so you are infact a pirate and just as bad as internet file sharers.
The future game consoles will not allow you to share a game between friends or family unless they are using the same console. This will stop the lending and buying and selling of used games because they are loosing money. But wait is this not what all the big problem is with porn web sites loosing sales ? Dosent matter how big or small a lost sale is a lost sale through sharing whether its a book or a game or a porn site
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1055291