{"id":2628,"date":"2010-04-10T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2010-04-10T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:24:46","slug":"my_conscience_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"My Conscience Is Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased the e-book versions of the first two volumes in George R.R. Martin&#8217;s epic <i>A Song of Fire and Ice<\/i> fantasy epic, even though I already own them in paperback. I wanted to re-read them on my PC and Amazon was selling them for a reasonable price. I paid for the same material twice because the cost of the electronic versions was more than offset by the convenience of owning that format. And it&#8217;s perfectly legal. According to <i>NY Times<\/i> ethicist Randy Cohen, downloading a&nbsp; pirated version of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/04\/magazine\/04FOB-ethicist-t.html?ref=magazine\">would have been just as ethical<\/a> because I had already paid the author for his work. So I shouldn&#8217;t feel too bad about downloading the pirate scans of some comic books that I had also purchased in print form and wanted to read again. It may have been technically illegal, but the <i>NY Times<\/i> says I&#8217;m still a good person. <\/p>\n<p>If publishers would simply make all of their content available in affordable, open digital formats, there&#8217;s no telling how much additional money they could wring out of me. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased the e-book versions of the first two volumes in George R.R. Martin&#8217;s epic A Song of Fire and Ice fantasy epic, even though I already own them in paperback. I wanted to re-read them on my PC and Amazon was selling them for a reasonable price. I paid for the same material <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2628' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Go","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}