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Imagine buying books and not being able to do with them what you like
Imagine spending years writing a book for the benefit of others, only to have it downloaded, stripped of it's licensing and given away to others for free and being robbed of compensation for the time you invested.
It sounds like you wrote a book for profit then, not for the benefit of others.
It sounds like you’d prefer a world where only well-off people spend the time writing books, since making money from writing is obviously not cool
Yes, most people do.
What a very depressing view of human nature you have.
...so doing work and expecting to be compensated for said work is depressing to you? That is Olympic grade mental gymnastics.
I'd say every book was written for profit.
Then you'd be saying something that's incorrect