"Curt Fischer" <tentrillion@gmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message

> This is delicious.  The old "prices are too unreasonable" bit.  I'll try
> the same argument when I try to sneak some watermelon into my backpack
> at the grocery store.
>
> Or is there some sort of kuri central commission on price approval that
> I can look to for guidance before deciding what to steal?

That should be the job of the copyright institutions.

Of course, there are people that do piracy just like they shoplift, but
that's not the case of everybody.

If a movie is sold 15 euro in France and 15000 yen in Japan ? I have seen 50
euro becoming 150 000 yen for teaching material...and the Japanese market
copy was so poor that we *had to pirate* the 50 euro one. As you know, you
cannot legally bring the cheap one into Japan and convert the format
yourself. You don't think there's a kind of rip off  ? Officially, there is
free trade, so why can't we import the French version (which is identical in
content  to the other one BTW) and just pay the copyright ?

Also, if an editor doesn't reprint/send the book that 80% of my students are
using, and I cannot legally copy it for the 20% left...If the editor paid
back the 80% of books already bought, so we get 100% of what we need from
another edition, but that's not the case. Why can't I reprint the book
myself and just pay the copyright ? I think I am a victim of the system too
because I sell them their f.... books and they let me down about supply.

This is not your watermelon. I don't steal the piece of plastic of the DVD,
the ink, the paper.I'm just unable to reward the author because of an unfair
system. Also they make me buy a whole water melon when I need only a small
part of it.
I agree that the authors desserve the copyright. I find it abusive that the
intermediate businesses prevent you from doing your own copies. If something
is published, anybody should have the right to access to it by just paying
the author's rights for the quantity they use.

Kuri