Boycotts only work if you can convince a reasonable number of people to join in and make it effective. That simply won't happen with internet access. People might boycott one company but they won't give up the internet all together, nor should they.
What needs to happen is for internet to be turned into a utility and regulated like one. It's not an optional thing anymore like cable TV. It's an essential service like water, gas, electricity, and roads.
That's fine until you pit a state against a multi-national corporation that commands more money than the entire state. The big telecoms have shown they can easily bend states to their will, which is why you need a greater power like the federal government watching over them.
There is no rule in any English language (or any language that I know of for that matter) where you randomly capitalize words at your whim. Why? Because it makes your sentences hard to read - which is the opposite of communicating.
I'm one of those creators and I'm just as American as you, and I say that copyright law is jacked up and needs some serious reform - nothing socialist or un-American about it.
The primary cost of a book is writing it - not printing it.
But there are lots of reasons to pirate besides cost. Avoiding DRM would be a big one for me. If I'm paying for it, I want to be able to read it on any device using any software I choose.
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That's not a choice.
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What needs to happen is for internet to be turned into a utility and regulated like one. It's not an optional thing anymore like cable TV. It's an essential service like water, gas, electricity, and roads.
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If Netflix can figure it out, other businesses can too.
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But there are lots of reasons to pirate besides cost. Avoiding DRM would be a big one for me. If I'm paying for it, I want to be able to read it on any device using any software I choose.
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