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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chilibean" data-source="post: 721234" data-attributes="member: 2220"><p>Why is it bad to charge a fair and reasonable price for the rights to use intellectual property?  What's with the instant reflex to view everything on the web as something that should be (as if by divine decree) completely and totally free?  I'm not sure what the mental hangup is preventing people from feeling comfortable with purchasing the rights to use a datafile.  A great many people who never would shoplift an actual physical item from a store seem to have no problem logging on to Kazaa and stealing it there.  Why can't people understand that intellectual property is still property.  I just don't understand.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Perhaps the problem is just me not understanding, but I just don't understand the protest against a publisher charging for what they are publishing.</p></blockquote><p></p>