Very Aladeen…

I searched to check…

Paperbacks average 10-20, hardbacks 40-60.

But obviously that’s not every book. The more it’s read and the thicker it is the faster the spine falls apart. Obviously a hardback threaded together with heavy paper is better than pulp and cheap glue. But there’s a lot in between the extremes.

I could buy a cheap paperback, throw it on a shelf, and it will look perfect.

That doesn’t mean the glue didn’t magically degrade and it will hold together thru a normal reading tho

So when I buy a book, I expect to be able to have it for the rest of my life, the life of my kids, maybe even grandkids

What?!

Maybe if your buying archival quality hardbacks and never taking them off the shelf…

Thinking every book will last 40-90 years is not reasonable.

But to be honest, most takes I’ve seen about this hasn’t been reasonable

By that logic piracy cannot cause damages above the retail value of a single copy regardless of how many times it was downloaded because ultimately they only stole 1 game.

Yeah…

The problem is you think the logic is wrong and not the punishment for illegal downloading should be at absolute most, the cost of a personal copy. Even if you made the download 100 times for reinstalls.

Which honestly, is how it works…

The thing is people that don’t seed are assholes, and for every person you seed to, you just distributed it to them. And if/when that can be quantified, that’s when huge charges rack up.

Like there was a porn company that seeded their own videos, logged IPs, and anyone they could identify was sued for distributing to every other person, regardless of if they could be identified. I think that shook out with greatly diminished charges, but I can’t remember

As far as how to fix that,change the laws so instead of user, it’s percent of data. 100% seed ratio would mean you took a copy, and provided a copy. Which would make most piracy not worth the effort of rights holders to enforce. Although Felony theft limits can be as low as $200 in some states and under 1,000 but that being so low due to inflation is a totally different problem.

That’s the exact argument…

If you buy a book from GoT, you own the physical pieces of paper the book is printed on, not the words. The reason it costs more than blank pages, is the words printed on there. But you don’t “own” the words. Just the pages that have the word printed on.

If you buy an electronic copy, you don’t “own” anything except the rights to have a copy of that.

Same for games.

You don’t “own” the game, you own the physical media the game is on. If there’s no physical media, then there’s nothing you own.

The reason it’s the same for games and books, is why it’s the same for TV, music, and every other form of media.