Your descendants can benefit from it. Sell copies of your book, then invest your money like everybody else that has to continue working over and over again to continue getting paid. Why do you believe you're so special that you should be able to work once, and then you and your progeny get paid indefinitely?

You're kidding, right?

Why should copyright have anything to do with the creator's lifespan? The goal of copyright is to encourage people to create, not to set people up with lifelong income streams.

By taking the taxes paid by some middle class people and giving it to other people who make the "right" decision. Fuck social engineering.

That's my point. If you're going to claim the rebate is designed to help create a charging network, why not subsidize that directly rather than provide cash back to individual car buyers? As usual, government incorrectly identifies the problem and misapplies the wrong solution.

Math/statitics fail.

Then why is the government rebating the individual purchaser of an expensive car rather than spending that money on building charging stations?

You've been hoodwinked.

Yeah, well iPhone fans used to mock large screen Android devices. "That huge screen is too big, the iPhone 4 has the ideal screen size." Until the 5 shipped, at which point that had the perfect screen size.

There's simple no reasoning with enthralled fanatics.

I would guess that the vast majority of big publishing house books aren't very successful either.

So you believe risk should only be on the consumer side? Why aren't the developers risking anything by putting their time in and at least demonstrating some ability to deliver?

Oh look, another fucking moron to suck the first moron off.

Are you a fucking moron? How are you blaming this on libertarians?

*stifles laughter*

Unfortunately, regulation intended to pick the honest quite commonly does exactly the opposite. Those with the connections to get away with being dishonest can do so while those playing by the rules get screwed.

You don't actually think digital text books are free, do you?