Copyright law doesn't tell you that you can't lend books you've bought for your Kindle -- AMAZON tells you that. The vendor.
What I -- the copyright holder -- say is, "Buy my book." NOT, "Rip off my book and post it on the web for free because you have politics, or entitlement, or because you can."
Yep, I'm angry, too. And it's not my content, dammit -- it's my work, my stories, my characters, and my livelihood.
I agree that SOPA was...ill-advised, at the least. You may remember the very many posts I made about it in these pages. And I agree that there's too much greed on the sides of publishers and vendors.
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Date: 2012-01-29 10:31 pm (UTC)Copyright law doesn't tell you that you can't lend books you've bought for your Kindle -- AMAZON tells you that. The vendor.
What I -- the copyright holder -- say is, "Buy my book." NOT, "Rip off my book and post it on the web for free because you have politics, or entitlement, or because you can."
Yep, I'm angry, too. And it's not my content, dammit -- it's my work, my stories, my characters, and my livelihood.
I agree that SOPA was...ill-advised, at the least. You may remember the very many posts I made about it in these pages. And I agree that there's too much greed on the sides of publishers and vendors.
On the other hand? Stealing remains wrong.