Why is everyone worried about what other people are doing. Things like sacrifice are relative, there may be people on here that spending $2 is hard for them to do. You did work to sacrifice, but you are assuming that this sacrifice is something that folks aren’t going through everyday they don’t have it. I particularly never look at it this way, because quite frankly, what you had to do was important to you and you alone.
Is it a sacrifice is someone who makes $80000 a year, with no extrapersonal obligations, paid $400 for the tome. I’d argue not, because that money is easy to come by. So how is he going to make a sacrifice equal to your sacrifice; you would have to price the book differently for each customer. So you can’t stake your sacrifice against others and say they should do it because you did. That was your choice, and you made it all by yourself.
I mean this sounds real petty, and it’s a bit tired, especially since it is ALL out there aside from OAA. The information is the only thing being released, and I was under the impression that the physical books were magickal constructions, which will not be duplicated unless physical copies are made. This would be a more sensible gripe, but what you paid for is not, at this moment, ever getting reproduced.
There was an allusion to burglary, and I don’t know how my point referred to that, but that didn’t make any sense. I made no claim that making an ebook would stop piracy. I am saying that it most certainly will happen, and any attempt at trying to privatize information is an attempt in futility. I was saying that since things will be pirated, anyone giving a damn about exclusivity in terms of knowledge needs to throw it out, because it was broken before the CW was even released. I also said that they can get the jump on piraters by making some money before it gets pirated, rather than folks first choice being piracy. We are assuming that people who pirate immediately go there for their first option, when that is far from the case. A burglar is definitely looking to steal, whereas many piraters chose piracy as a 3rd or 4th option.
I was just saying that the info was never exclusive, so anyone who cared about that wasn’t considering the age we live in, or the fact that most of the works are already out there. Everything else you paid for remains exclusive, unless they make more physical copies. Other than this, I can’t see how people are so mad right now, when it was really, REALLY obvious that this was going to happen. I mean we can justify the mindset all we want, but really… you kinda got yourself to blame if you feel so bad about it.
