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One real issue here is copyright and copyright infringment. If I create something, whether it is music, prose, poetry or film, I am the author and deserve a return for my efforts. If you reproduce it without my consent or get my consent by paying me or my agent, I have the ability to continue creating. No-one would think of going up to an employed person and say that they won't be getting paid this week because someone is taking their efforts for free. The people who expend the effort to create deserve to be rewarded and in our society that means being paid. We may choose to argue about the amount a movie star gets for acting or an athlete gets for entertaining, but they do deserve to receive compensation for their efforts. This may be a simplistic arguments for paying for what you get, but as someone involved in writing, I really resent if anyone chooses to photocopy my work instead of buying the book.
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