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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 4748919" data-attributes="member: 5724">The real reality is that you don't have the right to benefit me without my explicit permission. The issues is not one of benefit or harm, it is of rights and who makes the decisions concerning the use and distribution of a produced product.For example, if you don't have the owners explicit permission, it is illegal for you to renovate someone's house even if what you think you are doing is improving the value of the house. You don't have that right. Only the owner of the house does.I've been selling PDFs since 2003. I understand the benfit of the digital medium. I understand the potential benefits of copyright infringment to my business, but it is still illegal andtremendouslydisrespectfulbecause someone's telling me that they don't give a damn about my rights and that their desires about what they want to do are more important than my desires, as creator and copyright holder of the work.Also, anyone claiming that one of my works is under creative commons license isn't "mislead" - they know what they're doing and choose to be as big a jerk as possible about it.joe b.</blockquote>