Online Free Books Vs. Online Free Music?

Why such an uproar about asking to find free online books, when millions of people cost music artists money everyday downloading their music free online!?!?

Online Free Books Vs. Online Free Music?
Wow, you people! The question said NOTHING about copyrighted material...!





In answer, there are some really great stories to download for free at Gutenberg.org They have over 20,000 stories that are Absolutely LEGAL to download for free.





These include some fantastic books that have become classics! Thousands of authors like Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, books and authors you have heard of, but never had a chance to read... Take a look. I am sure you will find many, many stories there that you will just love...!





The url for their main page is: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Reply:writers lose the rights to their work a set number of years after they die.
Reply:Where's the uproar? Any way, downloading copy righted material is equally wrong, whether it is music, books, software, pictures etc.
Reply:Authors work. They write. They get paid for what they write. If you admire someone - why would you want to steal from them? That is like telling your best friend - I like you but I'm going to steal your plasma TV as soon as your family goes out for dinner. It's rude. It's illegal. Thanks to people like YOU who go about stealing from authors, the Writers Guild is currently on strike and we can't watch new episides of The Colbert Report and all our other favorite shows. Stop stealing. I love Louis Vuitton luggage. Does that give me the right to walk into his shop on 5th Avenue and help myself to a ten thousand dollar steamer trunk? Hell no. It means if I WANT one I have the option of buying it. Cool concept huh? Well the same goes with books. Unless you are willing to wait until 70 years after the author is dead, you will have to either buy the book or use the library. The author or his estate holds the copyrights and offers the books for sale to you and any other book lovers. Get used to the idea now - nothing in life is free. Stealing is wrong. Now stop asking people to be accomplices in your theft. It is wrong to steal music, too. Musicians have the right to earn a living too. Stealing is stealing.


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