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I do want the literature that is currently uploaded and given away for "free" by its "creator". I also want to be able to access all literature... Should I be limited in my access to literature because I have taken some sort of poverty vow, or I live on a remote hilltop somewhere with nothing but a small hut and an ereader with a decent 3G connection?
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Let us go through this again. You want literature that isn't created by the author to make a living, but just as a hobby. Yet that literature is already available, but you don't want it. You want the literature that people spend all day working on, yet you don't want them to get paid. Why not? Why do you demand that authors take a vow of poverty? And why do you put "creator" in quotes? That seems to imply that they actually didn't create anything.
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Yes, the speed of delivery has nothing to do with making books free, the freedom of books will see to that.
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You went on a rant of considerable length about how the speed of delivery implied books should be free, now you say it isn't. And you're just being circular with by saying making books free will make books free.
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Time is relative to the observer, any copyright could be called perpetual if you only have a certain amount of time. Which we all do...??
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If we were traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light, then time would be relative. But the length of time you have doesn't make copyright perpetual. We can debate how long is too long, but it is false that copyright of any length at all can be seen as perpetual.
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The government will give out cheap disposable ereaders to students. What are they going to be reading? Government approved educational materials?
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Handing out free e-readers in no way implies making all books free, any more than having eyes implies that all paper books should be free. The students could choose from millions of public domain books, they could read library books, they could purchase books. Or... they could read their textbooks. And where are these cheap disposable readers that you propose?
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The idea of recommendations/Commissar is not fatally flawed but it is not perfect, no recommendation system will ever be, there are simply too many unknowns to the mind.
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It is fatally flawed. The Commissar does not know better than me. I know what books I want, when I find a book I want, I buy it. I thus decide what authors I will reward. I am the only expert in the world on what I want to read. You were never talking about "recommendations", the entire point of the committees you proposed was to decide what authors get paid.
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Logic isn't the be all end all to the universe you know
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Yes, it is. Illogic is deadly.