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Originally Posted by Giggleton
No maybe about it, that's what needs to be done. The potential for infinite access to all texts and its possible effects on the future of the species is too great to lay in the hands of a few individual publishers.
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If everything is to be free, what incentive would there be to create new works? As things stand, people are able to create and have their work support themselves and their family. If they had no possibility of income, they would not be able to support themselves and would have to find alternative forms of work. Even if they did it for the pure enjoyment of it, they still would not have the means of sharing it with the world at large, since that still costs plus the companies that would ordinarily be there to provide services to share it would no longer be existing since they couldn't generate profit and couldn't afford to keep running while doing that type of work.