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gmjoe | 7 years ago

Very true.

It's not identity theft, it's financial fraud.

It's not stealing music, it's copying music.

It's not buying ebooks, it's leasing them.

It's crazy how easily we (and journalists above all) accept semantic distortions of reality, and forget what's actually going on.

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giancarlostoro|7 years ago

> It's not buying ebooks, it's leasing them. I mostly agree, though in some cases you do own them in a format that is reasonable. In other cases some ebooks are open on github as well under Creative Commons.

ddingus|7 years ago

I just wrote the same, now reading thread.

Infringement of or on the person.