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Originally Posted by khalleron
Me, too.
And like I said, if you want it, you can already get it through legitimate sources.
If the government is already willing to pay for copies of works so that citizens can read them freely, what else are you wanting?
To control it yourself, that's all. It's an ego trip - the common good is already taken care of.
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Exactly, since I can already get it from one source, I should be able to get it from all sources. Whether or not something is legitimate is in the eye of the beholder.
Just because an "official" tells you something is right does not mean that it is.
I would have to agree with you about setting up an "official" repository of all knowledge, paid for with tax dollars and accessible by everyone. Until such a repository is set up, we should be able to create our own "unofficial" repositories without fear of reprisal from anyone.
In fact, a large number of individual knowledge repositories is more inline with the networks original design intent. Making official knowledge repositories (libraries) redundant was/is the networks purpose.
As far as food is concerned, everybody has to eat but beyond that it's all good.