There is a difference here between lending or resale of a physical product. Can you sell a second hand book? Typically, yes. Can you do mental gymnastics to draw a parallel to reselling a digital version? Evidently, also yes.
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schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 year agoBut they aren’t claiming in they made it though.
I bought a book, I lent it to my friend to read. That shouldn’t be different than copying it so we could both read it at the same time and talk about it.
No one is claiming we done it.
poopkins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why would reselling a physical copy be different than a digital…?
dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is completely different. You can’t loan one book to 300,000 friends. By doing that, you’re stealing income from the author who wrote the book. If you, instead, recommended the book to your friend and then they bought it, you both get to read it and the author still gets to make a living.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So if I share that book with 50 friends over the course of the year that’s not taking income, but if it copy it 50 times and share it in a day it is?
dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, it still is. You’re just physically limited to one person until they finish reading which limits the damage. You can’t physically share it to them in one day. Either way, the author isn’t getting paid for their work.
Nelots@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I do see where you’re coming from, but not necessarily. If my friend has zero interest in ever buying said book (or can’t afford to) and would never become a paying customer, there is no downside to sharing a copy. In fact, if they like the book enough, they make even become incentivized to buy themselves a copy or look into the author’s other work legitimately when they otherwise wouldn’t have.
This is how/why I pirate most games. I don’t have the type of pocket money to spend on games I don’t know I’ll love, so I pirate them first. If they’re good enough, I’ll buy the actual game on steam later. Spider-Man, Baldur’s Gate 3, Cassette Beasts, etc. are all games I plan to buy when I can afford to. And I can promise I never would have bought Slime Rancher 2 if I hadn’t pirated the first one at some point and enjoyed it.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Either way the person is losing out, so the end result is the same so it shouldn’t matter in the end. I’m sorry you missed this point.
But hey, throw insults, that’ll get people on your side.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 year ago