[sdiy] OTA book on eBay

[Rainer Buchty]

>The number of people who want the book, or what they're willing to pay, or
>even what they think of the author has NOTHING to do with it. THE BOOK IS
>COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. IT IS SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROPERTY. It doesn't matter
>whether the author is being a 'brat,' selling unauthorized copies is just
>like someone walking into your house and walking out with your TV.

Actually, this is a wrong analogy.

If you want to go for the TV example, it's like TH having sold TVs in 
the past. People liked those very much, but finally, TH stopped selling 
them, leaving a market with demand without the product.

What that eBay guy is now doing is to clone that TV and sell clones of 
it. Doing so violates TH's intellectual rights, but it is nowhere near 
walking into TH's house and stealing *his* TV.

Rainer