It's easy to rant for or against this. On a flipside: 1. Copyright is deeply broken. It currently extends well beyond any reasonable interpretation of it's ori

It's easy to rant for or against this. On a flipside: 1. Copyright is deeply broken. It currently extends well beyond any reasonable interpretation of it's original purpose. 2. You can't enter a medium and regulate it so you can do business. The standard rules and metaphors of IP don't apply as well to digital distribution. The easiest way to prevent copyrighted work from being distributed is to not digitize it. Very few books and comics were being illegally downloaded before they started epubing them. But you can't pretend you have the right to a law on medium with a structure counter to that law. 3. "Everyone deserves to be paid for their work" is false. Everyone who does work, which can be sold in the current market, given the current realities of the world, and who price and distribute their product properly should be paid for their work. If I go clean up a public park, I have no right to charge admission. If I build a statue in a public space, I can't charge people to look at it, even if they come from far away to see it. Everyone deserves to get a part of any profit derived from their work, is a more correct statement.