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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Please understand that the content of a book was not seen as property for most of recorded history. The introduction of this idea into the public mind, and the ratification of copyright laws required the acceptance of quite a few number of if's along property conception lines. But these are just conceptions after all.
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It's been the law of the land and in the public mind for 230 years, or about as long as the United States has been a country. And don't say "please understand" it's condescending.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Abandoning copyright would require some more if's as well. Please accept these new if's.
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I wish you would please accept that people have a right to be paid for their work, and you can't have their efforts for free just because you want it. It's not the 1700s any more, just because the no-copyright model might have worked then (and I haven't researched it to say if it really did or not), doesn't mean it will work now.