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Why is it considered selling if what you're taking money for is an automated copy and not the product of your many work hours?

When you write a book, why should you get any royalties for the copies sold, if the guy selling the copies is using his own paper and ink to print? He should be charging for his materials and his work, not the work of someone else. In fact, it's the authors fault if he sells his work for peanuts, he should be responsible for trusting his own potential and dismissing whoever doesn't care about it, also the author should be responsible for making copies and selling them himself if he's that interested in copy revenue.

If I pirate a work, that means I'm running the costs for building the copy. The author has no business looking into how or what I use the copies for. He is not entitled to any revenue, he decided to make his ideas available, he should have kept it in his brain if he didn't want me to share them.

Don't tell a secret if you want it to remain a secret.