"No, it's that I think fair use rights are more important. Business online needs to be done in a way that respects fair use. It's also not clear that it does lead to less success for Wildbow, or anyone else. There's no reason it can't or won't be done in a way that respects fair use. If they continue to trample fair use then they'll lose even harder in the long run when people are forced to continue file sharing illegally. Downloading what Wildbow has already freely published for personal use is not even p2p file sharing though. > It doesn't mean that investors can't make it their business. Clearly. They've made it very much their business. I mean that it's not their business ethically or legally. > You publishing his book online or giving out programs that make copies... To be clear I did neither. > It is likely to hurt Wildbow. Maybe, but giving up fair use hurts all of us. More than it hurts Wildbow. > You could, instead, just pirate privately. That's an oxymoron. > That doesn't..." - Tanath