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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I am upset by the fact that libraries are allowed to upload books onto our ereaders and then required to delete them a week later, because copyright law tells them to.
LIBRARIANS SHOULD KNOW BETTER,
yes that is a paraphrased quote from the LOTR movie, which instilled deep knowledge into me. We can never tell just what part of which text will help us in our journey, one of the reasons copyright should be swept away.
This idea is not some random thought that a few cranks spout at various times in various places around the internet, this is THE IDEA.
I hope to contribute to its acceptance in every way that I can, and I hope you will do the same.
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Giggleton, you missed my point. I said you are equating writing with knowledge, and, even if I take your word for it that you learned deep life lessons while watching the LOTR movie, here's the problem with your premise. What if the deepest and most important knowledge you seek won't come to you until you tear yourself away from your books and experience something in the real world? Even if someone else has already learned that lesson and has carefully recorded in writing what they learned (as with Ralph Waldo Emerson), still you will not learn that lesson just by reading about it. So it might be argued that writing is something entirely separate from knowledge. Either way, do you really want to spend your life reading other people's versions of knowledge rather than seeking wisdom yourself?
I believe you honestly think ending copyright is THE IDEA, but I hope someday you will gain the wisdom to realize it is just an idea.