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Originally Posted by Giggleton
There is no reason that unfettered access to content and unlimited downloads should mean no compensation to the creator...
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What about hate literature? Should far right hooligans who don't read books be allowed to fund their organizations by continual downloads?
Your system means that the government has to either fund hate groups, or say which books are beyond the pale. Neither is acceptable.
It's true that government-paid librarians already make some decisions of this type today. But the censorship aspect here is, today, highly dilute because not all books are bought with government funds, and the decisions as to what books the government will buy are disparate and decentralized. In your system, there would have to be some kind of national or world-wide book Czar deciding whether the newest translation of (put here whatever book you most dislike) gets funded. This should not be acceptable in a democracy (or in any other country).