> the bottom line is, that someone took the time and energy to write and publish that book to make money, so that person should be paid I agree with you! As I

> the bottom line is, that someone took the time and energy to write and publish that book to make money, so that person should be paid I agree with you! As I said lower down in my comment: > Of course, we can't just abolish copyright with no replacement; it's certainly necessary to reward the creation of this work somehow. I absolutely believe that we need to pay the creators of [what we would currently call] copyrighted works somehow. I'm just not convinced that the best way to do that is with a "per-consumer" cost. I go on to discuss some alternatives that still reward creators, but reduce some of the harmful impacts of copyright. I'll readily admit that I haven't thought those ideas through that much, but that's a far cry from completely failing to consider that creators need to be paid, as you seem to be implying I did.