Comment by pyman

6 months ago

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Making a copy differs from taking an existing object in all aspects: literally, technically, legally and ethically. Piracy is making a copy you have no legal right to. Stealing is taking a physical object that you have no legal right to. While the "no legal right to" seems the same superficially, in practice the laws differ quite a bit because the literal, technical and ethical aspects differ.

Who got robbed? Just because I'd pay for AI it doesn't mean I'd buy these books.

  • You should ask the teachers who spent years writing those books.

    • You keep saying the word "teachers"; but that word does not appear in the text of the article. Why focus on the teachers in particular?

      Also, there are various incentives for teachers to publish books. Money is just one of them (I wonder how much revenue books bring to the teachers). Prestige and academic recognition is another. There are probably others still. How realistic is the depiction of a deprived teacher whose livelihood depended on the books he published once every several years?

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