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Originally Posted by elcreative
Like to like - borrowing a book from a library is like renting not buying... at no point do you own the book unlike the trailer, plane etc comparison where you own them... I suppose you don't believe in people paying hire fees when they rent a car or a cabin because that's the corollary of your comparison... or is it just that a segment of the US (usually Republican I believe) labels anything for the general good with the label "Socialist" and managing to make it derogatory???
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I'm not even sure what the helicopter guy was trying to say. But helicopters and boats are not digital goods, which is what we are discussing here, and which can of course be infinitely traded. Although there really need only be one "copy" of a text, as long as it is accessible by everyone.
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Originally Posted by Phogg
In the US, the compensation authors get is that we will have a copyright system at all. No more books in libraries paid for once for the public good would equal zero need to burden government with copyright enforcement.
That is our social contract.
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I don't understand your thoughts either. But if you were saying that "libraries" and "creators" should work together to determine price of access for individual works, then I might agree with you, although that would definitely be a time consuming task. Although it could be shortened by having categories that "creators" could place their works into, 10 cents, 25 cents, 10 dollars etc...
Most of us pay for data consumption anyway, the idea of an idea encoded into a bit, we are essentially paying twice for the same thing, or we are being double dipped upon by these content commodifiers.
In the past we used to think that the property in question when talking about books was the book itself and not the text contained therein, now of course we know better, but there is still perhaps a bit more thinking to do on the subject.