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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
Why can you pay for bread but not for a book?
It's not knowledge: no bright new formulas to cope with problems, no valid new laws or fundamental properties uncovered. It's a work to amuse people who'll pay for it. People who won't pay for it are not forced into reading it either.
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Making value judgements on the worth of a text, seems to me an impossible task. You might not see the value in some work and view it as a simple diversion for the masses, but I might read the work and take away a fundamental new view on the nature of existence and what it means to be human.
My point is, that we are incapable of determining how a particular work will affect anyone.
I agree that reselling another's creation while not giving the creator any dues, is a bit odd. But it's an anomaly, and we should not be basing the laws of our society on the actions of a few anomalous individuals and what they might do.
