They weren´t just pirating overpriced books, they were pirating everything, including cheap books, and for a profit, pirate websites make a ton of money with advertising, but I totally understand if people on low income pirate things, the problem root however is that nobody should be low waged, it is not the writers fault.
Buying second hand books, just like borrowing them from the library, it is perfectly legal as you know. Nobody complaints about that, writers already got paid the first time.
Eliminating the low-waged is impossible in any form of capitalist society. Just as unemployment is. Money needs to circle from the high and low and back, and the problem is that it's not doing that enough. The needs and demands aren't free enough either, though I'm not one arguing for an entirely free market. Just more free than now.
We used to have a fair solution for this that allowed authors to have a monopoly for a decent amount of time in the US Constitution. Then Congress decided to steal from the people (Public Domain) and give to their corporate sponsors.
Not sure why this was downvoted. The copyright privilege granted to the government to spur the creation of arts has unquestionably been warped over the years by corporate IP attorneys. You can support copyrights, patents, and trademarks while understanding that.
Honestly the whole idea of Intellectual Property is a sham that demeans the value of Real Property and possessions, but that's a different discussion.
Textbooks aside, the people that can live as full time writers are either good enough that people want physical copies or they are already propped up by a publisher who keeps them around for diversity and no one is buying their stuff anyway.
The difference between a book whose target audience is students vs the general public is often a factor of 10 or more.
Back when printing required physically making plates and limited print runs meant recouping high fixed costs is over. The old justifications no longer apply, but the market hasn't corrected because it is controlled by a cartel.
Why would anybody work full time as a writer if their books are going to pirated and be given away for free afterwards?
And I thought my professor was a scammer for writing the text book but at least it was a proper hard bound book.
Spiral bound for 50 buckos? That's an outright scam, no wonder people want to download books from pages like this.
Ours was 50% content cut from other books.
They can sink lower.
They weren´t just pirating overpriced books, they were pirating everything, including cheap books, and for a profit, pirate websites make a ton of money with advertising, but I totally understand if people on low income pirate things, the problem root however is that nobody should be low waged, it is not the writers fault.
Buying second hand books, just like borrowing them from the library, it is perfectly legal as you know. Nobody complaints about that, writers already got paid the first time.
Eliminating the low-waged is impossible in any form of capitalist society. Just as unemployment is. Money needs to circle from the high and low and back, and the problem is that it's not doing that enough. The needs and demands aren't free enough either, though I'm not one arguing for an entirely free market. Just more free than now.
We used to have a fair solution for this that allowed authors to have a monopoly for a decent amount of time in the US Constitution. Then Congress decided to steal from the people (Public Domain) and give to their corporate sponsors.
Not sure why this was downvoted. The copyright privilege granted to the government to spur the creation of arts has unquestionably been warped over the years by corporate IP attorneys. You can support copyrights, patents, and trademarks while understanding that.
Honestly the whole idea of Intellectual Property is a sham that demeans the value of Real Property and possessions, but that's a different discussion.
Textbooks aside, the people that can live as full time writers are either good enough that people want physical copies or they are already propped up by a publisher who keeps them around for diversity and no one is buying their stuff anyway.
Most regular books are much more reasonably priced than most textbooks, as well.
The difference between a book whose target audience is students vs the general public is often a factor of 10 or more.
Back when printing required physically making plates and limited print runs meant recouping high fixed costs is over. The old justifications no longer apply, but the market hasn't corrected because it is controlled by a cartel.